Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...more game for Washington would finish it. Washington was over anxious. With a two run lead to begin with, the Senator allowed the Pittsburghers to slip past them, score three runs. The game score stood...
...expectant world. Bred to thunder forth the fame of wounded heroes stricken on the field of glory, poor Ooo-Rah never wheezed a note. No single "Ooo" nor yet a "Rah" did Ooo-Rah bellow out in signal of a lusty birth. One long protracted hush proclaimed before an anxious multitude that Ooo-Rah's birth was also Ooo-Rah's death. So let him lie and rest in everlasting peace. And may this simple tribute long endure, a monument eternal to our sad abortion, little...
When in 1897 the CRIMSON faced hot competition from the News, a lively daily which for two years gave the editors of the older paper many an anxious moment, the importance of the "extras" was doubled. On one occasion, when the University eleven was away from home playing Pennsylvania, the CRIMSON arranged, at a considerable expense, for a private telephone wire direct from the field. The enterprising and unscrupulous News editors tapped the wire, and great was the consternation of the CRIMSON to find their "extra" almost immediately followed by an identical issue of the News...
...Naturally I am terribly anxious about the opening of the 'Miracle' in Boston, which will always remain my home town. I am sure it will be well received, for Boston is proud of its reputation as a center of culture and refinement which has always supported beautiful things. There is a fine spiritual movement in the 'Miracle' which can not fail to appeal to a city like Boston...
...reviewing the book, Mr. Pennypacker says. "Older men whose hearts are young and memories keen and younger men whose blood is hot and spirits high, should read this book; but especially are its pages commended to anxious parents and college professors who are earnestly seeking to follow where the light of duty leads and who sincerely dread best interest in play and recreation smother and stifle the intellectual life...