Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that President Wilson wants to form a League of Nations first and then refer everything to it. He has no clear idea of what is meant by such a League. His position in America becomes increasingly difficult, and he will probably have to go back soon and is desperately anxious to take something back...
...family are his two daughters, and that the eldest one, the Infanta Beatriz, has inherited Alfonso's clever brains also. She has dark eyes and hair like her father. Her sister, Infanta Maria Christina, is fair like her mother, Queen Victoria. . . . It is said that King Alfonso is anxious to marry his favorite child, Infanta Beatriz, now 18, to her first cousin, Prince Alfonso of Bourbon-Sicily whose portrait you give in TIME. He is the son of King Alfonso's dead sister and is a fine, dashing young officer. If he should then be declared heir...
...wish to extend a hearty welcome to the Class of 1931 and assure you that all of us in the Dean's Office are anxious and willing to help you in every way possible to a good start in one of the most important adventures of your life. Also, as the year moves on, we hope that you will come to us freely about your various problems, needs, and plans. A dean's office, I fear, is often pictured as a kind of "Star chamber" where long hours are spent in devising various forms of disciplinary action ranging...
...Canadian Club of Vancouver gave Edward of Wales and his brother George a royal welcome. Responding to the ovation, the elder prince said he had "two strings to his bow" and that his younger brother was anxious to tell in his own words how much he had enjoyed his trip through the Dominion...
...course. The next message was panicky, "We are landing in the sea. We have a rubber lifeboat but send help." Nothing but silence followed, for hours. At Wheeler Field, near Honolulu, Army planes were readied for the search. The three rescue ships talked back and forth in anxious, inaudible flashes. . . . Four and one-half hours after sending their last cry for help, Flyers Smith and Bronte planed down toward a thorny strip of land guarding a lagoon on the isle of Molokai* in the Hawaiian group. Bushes ripped their ship as it crashed down through a breadfruit tree. But their...