Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...inhabitants located about 18 km. from Freiburg. Ah! the charm of that little town. How rudely it was disturbed during the Fruehschoppen -the student drinking bouts which lasted from early morn till evening. Like many college students, proud of their ability in classroom foreign languages, a few were anxious to show their knowledge of English in conversing with me: the result was that I spent the day guzzling with them, and cemented our friendship with liquid mortar. And very pleased I was to receive an invitation to attend a secret Mensuren on the coming Friday, July...
...obvious, of course, that this undertaking cannot be a success unless it has the support and cooperation of students and teachers in the field of economics. We are most anxious to have contributions of articles or shorter notes for publication from the advanced students and younger economists at Harvard; and we are also anxious to extend our circulation so as to include as many American economists as possible. The subscription charge for one year has been set at 7 shillings (about $1.40 at present rates of exchange...
...night Timothy, other Herrick cat, also disappeared. Few hours later the anxious family was awakened by a faint, insistent mewing. Mr. Herrick traced the cries to the backyard of his next-door neighbor, Broker John Parkinson Jr. Pushing aside a loose fence paling, he beheld a specially-designed cat trap containing Timothy and the remains of some stale fish...
Meanwhile the treasurer of the Lampoon, anxious to supply the papers with stories for their morning editions, arranged with radio station WBZ in Boston to have Boyd speak over the air in the evening. Upon his refusal to do this in spite of threats, R. J. Walsh '34, Ibis of the Lampoon, undertook to impersonate Boyd, and succeeded in hoaxing the managers of the radio station into allowing him to broadcast...
...must be completed at a regular time every week and presented at a stated twenty-minute interval, a system which has its disadvantages. Finally, Zoology 3 is literally the only course in the entire field in which the laboratory instructors are of very little assistance. They are, apparently, too anxious to return to their research to waste much time with students; some of them have an attitude which causes the demonstrations to resemble a grammar school quiz, and which occasionally bids fair to turn the laboratory into a battle field...