Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...well circumstanced rumor has it that Dean Pound of the Law School is to be offered the presidency of Wisconsin University. The suggestion is flattering, but the offer itself may be ominous. The rumor alone must make the University anxious to tie closer a man whose reputation as a scholar does honor to Harvard and whose efforts as an administrator have placed the Law School among the foremost in the world...
...French people recognize the mutual sacrifices of both nations upon the altar of general peace. We are anxious to reëstablish our mutual relationship. We are confronted with great difficulties, but I consider that there are no questions before us which will be hard to solve, should there be shown good will by both sides...
Panic. "I well remember, after the panic of 1907, when my father was telling me the story of those anxious and agitated days, during which I had been absent, that he said, by way of summing up what he had been telling...
...Chinese Government is gratified to be apprised that the Governments signatory to the Washington treaties are willing and anxious to proceed as soon as practicable with the carrying out of the measures contemplated in the Washington treaties and resolutions...
...same smiling seriousness that the University throws open its doors to the returning student, so soon to undergo the ordeal of Mid-year examinations. There incongruity of the present moment intermingles wishes for a "Happy New Year" with warnings of the approaching period of trial and judgment. The anxious student consults the calendar and counts his hours of grace before the first examination...