Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bridge" or "Rope"? The treaty may become either a bridge over which Soviet Russia will pass into contact with other "capitalistic" nations, or a rope by which the Soviets may tug Germany out of friendly contact with the west. Frenchmen were generally anxious about and critical of the new instrument last week. Most League officials seemed not to share the French view that it will tend to keep Germany out of the League...
...foolishness to be a thing of the past until this morning. I discovered I myself had been victimized. A Ford, which I had left behind Claverly Hall in violation of a seldom-enforced rule had disappeared. Of course, theft seemed the most plausible explanation at first, but a few anxious minutes of inquiry disclosed the annoying truth My subsequent round of travel exposed me to master-pieces of red tape. Only after being shunted around from Church Street to Lehman Hall, and from there back to two garages on Church Street, ore of which had to sign the release...
...Princeton meet comes the preliminary arrangements for the Harvard Interscholastic track meet on May 15. Manager F. T. Gibson '26 said yesterday that about 300 invitations have been sent out, and 36 schools have already signified their intention of entering men. The Harvard Athletic Association is particularly anxious to have a large number of small schools enter men, and to emphasize competition of individuals rather than of teams. With this end in view, five places will score this year instead of four, and ribbons will be given to those who take fourth and fifth places...
Despatches stated that Sir Robert had reckoned as negligible Lord Birkenhead's reputed proclivities for gaming tables, toddies and toasts of every kind. The rich shipowner was envisioned by many of his intimates as anxious to testify to his long intimacy with the potent statesman by bequeathing Wealth to Power. All Britain was a-tiptoe when the will was probated at Jersey, England, late in the week. Sir Robert left his entire fortune to his widow...
...slaughter men; or whether the lamas, who are so humane that they will not molest lice and other creatures that take refuge on their bodies, could not bear to have any more human lives endangered and sacrificed on that gaunt tooth of Asia that white men are so perplexingly anxious to ascend. On the third and last expedition, which came within 800 feet of the peak, two men were lost (TIME, June 30, 1924), George Leigh Mallory and A. C. Irvine...