Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...landed and could rise again, how long would they tarry for scientific observations? If there were no landing place from which they could rise again, had they chosen to land and trek back in order to have a chance for scientific observation? They kept the world waiting, wondering and anxious...
...spells something far better than a subsidy: namely, the use of beacons, landing fields and landing lights at nominal figures. Further, there is every prospect that, as soon as the company has demonstrated its dependability, it will carry the air mail under contract. Postmaster General New is only too anxious to see his department relieved of a responsibility which, like the transportation of railway mail, rests properly with private operators...
...official college paper tells us also that the college authorities wish the visiting graduates to refrain, in New Haven, from any public or private breach of the law. These unflattering suggestions have been published in many newspapers. Dr. Angell thus seems to say: T deplore your coming. I am anxious lest you set a bad example to our young people. I am afraid that you will break a law which I love and respect, and get us in discredit with the police. I am afraid that you will get drunk on my doorstep...
...official college paper tells us also that the college authorities wish the visiting graduates to refrain, in New Haven, from any public or private breach of the law. These unflattering suggestions have been published in many newspapers. Dr. Angell thus seems to say: "I deplore your coming. I am anxious lest you set a bad example to our young people. I am afraid that you will break a law which I love and respect, and get us in discredit with the police. I am afraid that you will get drunk on my doorstep...
...James II of England, whose title he still possesses, being the tenth Duke. The first Duke of Berwick saw service under his father and later under Louis XIV of France. Montesquieu in his eloge cites that so great was his courage and ability that all parties were anxious to have him on their side. Before his death, he became a French subject and a Marshal of France...