Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...good player on the teams comes under their eyes, there will be an excellent chance for promotion to a higher squad, with the possiblity of going even further. With all these features, it will be seen that class football offers a remarkable opportunity to those who are ambitious and anxious to learn football...
...Anarchy gibbered. The Chinese Communist tide, welling upward from Canton (TIME, Sept. 6), gained undisputed headway at last. During the week the one hundred million Chinese who dwell in the Yangtze River valley found themselves in the power of the Cantonese Communist Super-Tuchun Chang Kaishek. The Great Powers, anxious, perturbed, despatched a total of 40 warships up the Yangtze to protect their nationals...
...very anxious that the selected men that receive the schola ships contribute as much as possible to the understanding of your country by our country. We, therefore, try to send the students to as many different schools as possible, and we require that they shall spend their Summer vacations at our expense traveling throughout the country...
...each year. In Great Britain, in the past, education beyond the secondary schools has never been popular, in the sense that it was considered one of the rights of all classes. The wealthy and the men with a stong intellectual bent, in general, have been the only ones anxious to attend our universities, and, as a result we have had no difficulty keeping...
...America I notice that most of the students who major in science are anxious to use their knowledge in a vocation. As a consequence, here your finest men are often absorbed into industry, while in Great Britain our best men, if they use their scientific knowledge at all, stay in the university, where they become research specialists and teachers. In the long run it, perhaps, does not make much difference to science, as American industries no less than American schools have their laboratories for research. It merely reflects in one instance the different attitudes of the American and the English...