Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would be issued cards certifying their age. At Dartmouth beer is now being served, but no age limit exists in New Hampshire. Yale and Princeton, like Harvard, are investigating the matter, and have not as yet reached any decision. It is understood that the authorities in University Hall are anxious to have beer in the dining halls if it can be sold legally and profitably. Lawyers consulted yesterday considered the club scheme the most likely solution...
...would not support him unless the proposed cuts were restored in wounded veterans' and war widows' pensions, and in expenditures for social service education. Opposition of the fire-eating Right parties is constant, but in Daladiers own party a split is brewing with followers of Edouard Herriot, anxious to pay France's defaulted debt to the U. S. at once. Daladier and disciples are for nonpayment. As spokesman for the Right, Former Finance Minister Pierre Etienne Flandin popped up in the Chamber of Deputies last week and asked a number of questions that the world at large...
...price stage last week. With Russian and Japanese troops massed near the border, the shadow-boxing stage seemed to have ended. The Japanese offered 80,000,000 yen (about $19,000,000). Russia fixed its asking price at 300,000,000 gold rubles (about $153,000,000). Japan was anxious to prolong the haggle as long as possible, believing that the longer Japan waits the cheaper the railway will become. It proposed a three-party commission to meet in Tokyo. On it Russia will have one vote. Japan will have two, its own and that of a Manchukuo representative...
...willing concession by Sir John Cadman. who wishes to pacify the opposition of U. S. oil men long anxious for some share in the Persian fields...
...Sidney Howard in 1926. There is not much action in The Silver Cord but if the cinema does not improve upon the play in this respect it has the compensating advantage of being able to show close-ups of Miss Crews's face, as it becomes ingratiating, anxious, angry, greedy, terrified and, finally, a twitching mask of misdirected lust. Good shot: Mrs. Phelps spilling a cocktail when her daughter-in-law says that she expects a baby...