Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...view of the present wide public interest in the tunnel project the government has come to the conclusion that the time is ripe for a comprehensive reexamination of the question. We are anxious that a very thorough consideration should be made of the economic aspects of the matter in order that these may be weighed with imperial defence considerations and a decision reached on broad grounds of national policy." (See Parliament's Week...
...respects in Cairo to King Fuad. At the same time his Manhattan office through Thomas M. Debe voise, collector of pro-Rockefeller proxies, announced,. "We now feel confident of having enough proxies. We shall continue bending our energies to obtain many more stockholders for our side, for we are anxious to lead in the number of voters as well as in the volume of share-holders...
...state of isolation which is regrettable. The reciprocal loans for purposes of study, which are universal among museums, should now be encouraged, under proper precautions, and every effort should be made to enlist the interest of as large a number of persons as possible. The staff, are ready and anxious to undertake the rearrangement and labelling but they felt it was beyond their power unless they could be provided with trained assistance and working facilities. The income of the Museum was not only too small to permit this, but was insufficient for effective administration even after modernization...
...wingless, soundless, egg-laying edible chicken was called the Kiwi. There were Buttercups from Sicily and Austrolops from Australia, and one three-legged hen. Newsmongers in their enormously disagreeable eagerness to make some funny sayings about the poultry show and in their total inability to do so hung in anxious frenzy over prisons in which specimens of canaries whistled their shrill chants. These canaries were a special feature of the 40th show. One, worth $4,000, had died on reaching the show because his water and food had spilled en route from Cleveland. The canaries were judged mainly on their...
Joseph M. Schenck, president of United Artists, anxious to improve his golf, engaged as private tutor Leo Diegel, famed professional, paying him some say $12,000 for six weeks...