Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Office has the machinery for bringing students and tutors together, although this machinery is at present very rarely used. If those undergraduates who needed polishing up in any subject would go to University L, they could quickly be given the names of several students who are ready and anxious to help them learn the material they need...
...Norfolk, the Fleet's holiday mood changed to one of anxious preparation. Fueling started at emergency speed to fill all the Fleet's tanks and bunkers in three days instead of the normal twelve. Guessing that they might be bound much farther west than California, perhaps to Pearl Harbor or beyond, commissary officers laid in for their crews a six-week supply of fresh milk, fresh vegetables, including tons of spinach. And orders were to unship all old ammunition, take aboard new. Gunners knowingly noticed that the new projectiles for their big guns were colored differently from target...
Said aged Premier Colijn hopefully, as Dutch engineers mined the dikes: "I advise all not to be unduly anxious. . . . Humanity's destiny is not in the hands of one man, but in the hands of God Almighty. ... We shall not be blown like reeds in the wind...
...anxious question of "Will there be war in Europe?" the right answer early this week could be given only by those who knew what was in the mind of Adolf Hitler. Among the few Nazi higher-ups who should have known the Führer's mind (who as usual kept all he knew discreetly to himself) was a man named Heinrich Himmler. Bachelor of Science in Agriculture, State Councillor of Prussia, deputy of the Reichstag, Herr Himmler is better known for two other far more important titles: Reichsführer of the Schutzstaffel (the famed, black-uniformed...
Lilly Doche, swank Manhattan milliner, defended the present preposterousness of women's hats: "These are anxious times and conditions are disturbed, so it is no wonder that women go out and buy gayer hats than usual. ... To be attractive women should have what the French call esprit both inside and on top of their heads...