Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...anxious observer may tremble for the fate of the reading period with such quantity of competing attractions. But reading lists cannot be pursued twenty-four hours a day, and diversions such as these can refresh the weary minds with good effect. On the whole the only fear to be expressed is that the present calendar be changed, for Boston has not always been, so fortunate...
...interest of Germans in last week's general election (see above) was scarcely keener than their anxious curiosity about the functions of the two kidneys of Foreign Minister Dr. Gustav Stresemann, now generally considered the ablest statesman of Republican Germany...
...confusion of hundreds of hopeful athletes, anxious coaches, and harassed managers which will reign on Soldiers Field this afternoon will emerge before nightfall a comparatively small group of proved stars--the finalists in tomorrow's struggle for highest intercollegiate track and field honors. Certainly can cafely be asserted on only two points: that the men who survive today's trials may confidently be expected to provide the spectator in the Stadium tomorrow with a veritable battle of the giants, and that their ranks will include many names which figured but slightly on the dope sheets for pre-meet speculation...
Approved the erection in Manhattan of the projected Broadway Methodist Temple, after much argument and the anxious comment, provided by the opposition, that the Temple would open "a very, very wide door...
...ancient tenancy. Near to the almost perfectly preserved little chapel which Rector Gough discovered last week are the remnants of a Norman Church, built at a much later date and destroyed during the last century. In its foundations there is a tomb upon which travelers may read this somewhat anxious epitaph: "John of Candover lies here. May the good and gracious God have mercy...