Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...easily lead to a war, and to a fatal war from the angle that Germany cannot afford war and could not, in all probability, find outside support. But it is obvious that he cannot now be deterred. His present position demands a period of loud shouting and of anxious waiting--awaiting a time when the powers will agree to ask him back to Geneva, with appropriate minor concessions. In effect this election is Germany's last call for a peaceful settlement. Pollux is inclined to be pessimistic about this matter, and to predict an "un-moneyed, simple conflict" comparable...
...thousands of fur dealers, dressers, dyers, manufacturers, retailers and their employes throughout the land last week was National Fur Week. They did their best through Press, radio, cinema, window displays and fashion shows to make the rest of the U. S. aware of fur. anxious to own some. Warmish weather handicapped them in New York and other sections, but by the end of the week they felt they were off to a prosperous season. Fur men had other reasons for feeling cheerful last week.* They had begun 1933 with three bleak years behind them. Both manufacturers and retailers had swung...
...restore the country's diminishing game supply, the American Game Conference in 1930 originated the program of persuading farmers to use their woodlots to raise game birds. More Game Birds in America Inc. has actively backed it. State Legislatures, anxious to help farmers as well as to please sportsmen, have begun to fall into line. Finally, their wits sharpened by Depression, farmers have begun to cooperate. New York, which has a regular pheasant season of only six days, with a two-bird bag limit and shooting of cock birds only, now allows farmers to sell hunting rights on artificially...
...considered by Colonel Spaulding as preparedness and therefore a guarantee against war. Refuting the critics of his department, he affirmed that the soldier is the last man to desire a war, since it is upon him that the work of conducting it rests. "Many are very anxious to acquaint the public with the horrors of war. The military man knows them all. He has had first-hand contact with them...
Stillman was built in 1901 to serve as a hospital for members of the University. For some years, it is understood, the University has been anxious to provide better infirmary facilities, but the necessary money has not been forthcoming. Dr. Roger I. Lee '02, who was chiefly responsible for putting in a department of Hygiene at Harvard and who is now a member of the Cor- poration, said last night that Stillman is getting old, but that there is not right now much prospect of getting any money to replace...