Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Brown comes to Soldiers Field today to retrieve in some measure the prestige that is its due. Their task will be a difficult one for they meet an in-and-out Harvard team that is equally anxious to rise from mediocrity. Brown men come to Boston feeling that the latent power and brilliance of the team will flash again as it did a year ago. Memories of the great team of 1926 and the belief that the "Iron men" can and will come back have created an interest in the game that exceeds that of any year in the history...
Secretary Wilbur: "I am anxious to get the full benefit of any suggestions...
...fourth season under Serge Koussevitzky, gave two worthy catholic programs - Stravinsky, Debussy, Brahms, Berlioz, Bach-Schonberg, Richard Strauss, de Falla. "This year," read a foreword in the program book, "owing to increased expenses the deficit is likely to be $85,000, and we ask all those who are anxious to see these concerts continue to subscribe towards the deficit." Figures showed the operating expenses increased by $32,696; the gross income $717,886; the gross expenditure...
...faculty of the College of the City of New York, certain that Michael Bonney was the finest college janitor in the U. S., prepared a banquet for him. Anxious to make merry, they publicly gave him the "degree" of Past Master of Janitorial Science. They gave him a watch. President Frederick B. Robinson said: "We can't pretend to Michael Bonney. He knows us inside and out just as he knows the college inside...
Four hundred and twenty thousand persons own the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. As stockholders, they have been delightfully anxious for six months. So have brokers in Wall Street. The company in six months has earned much money. Wherever two or three traders have been gathered together it has been whispered that the company would "cut a melon," market jargon for an increased dividend...