Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Laughing, eager, the crowd surged forward, everyone anxious to be among the first to tread the final section of the boulevard begun under Napoleon III by his great Prefect of the Seine, Baron Haussmann, just 70 years ago. The new sector, only a few dozen yards long, at last connects the Boulevard Haussmann with the Grands Boulevards, and makes a single magnificent thoroughfare, stretching continuously from the Place de la République to the Place de 1'Etoile...
...modeled a puncher throwing his weight on the off stirrup, helping his horse keep his feet during "The Hard Pull." In the anxious faces of horse and man, in the wrenched positions of girth and pommel, a steer they had roped and were dragging out of a bog became almost visible. The proportions and positions of Student Wheeler's first three models were indeed too natural for one teacher, who declared they had no "art" in them. But even this criticism died away when Sculptor Wheeler returned from a visit to the Messrs. Korner & Wood with a quotation...
...Exeter, New Hampshire. This contest is the first exhibition debate ever attempted at any preparatory school. It is also the first exhibition debate attempted by Harvard. It has been brought about through the efforts of Mr. A. A. Gleason '86, of Boston, and by several Exeter masters, who are anxious to stimulate an interest in forensic speaking among the students of Exeter Academy...
This will be the first exhibition debate attempted by Harvard. It has been brought about through the efforts of Mr. Gleason, who is anxious to stimulate an interest in forensic speaking among the students of Exeter Academy...
This is the first exhibition debate ever attempted by Harvard. It has been brought about through the efforts of Mr. A.A. Gleason '86, of Boston, who is anxious to stimulate an interest in forensic speaking among the students of Exeter Academy. Mr. Gleason is acting as the Chairman of the Harvard-Leland Stanford debate...