Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Students anxious to retain in their minds the general reading knowledge of German which they may have gathered in German A or 1A will find their desires fulfilled in this course of German 2, in which the prep school style of conducting the class is offset by some rather valuable reading in Goethe, Schiller, Lessing, Thomas Mann, and other famous writers of past or present times...
...gold standard the American dollar will fall, on the international exchange, at least temporarily and will be put in the favorable position in the world market that England now holds through similar action taken a year and a half age. With the dollar falling, Great British will be anxious to reach an agreement whereby the two currencies will be stabilized on some common basis, and accordingly will be more open-minded to a reconsideration of the Empire isolation policy cemented at the Ottawa Conference. France's position on the monetary exchange is considerably jeepardized by Roosevelt's action, since...
...Still anxious lest they offend their Dry enemies, the New York brewers, through Col. Jacob Ruppert, had announced that the new brew would not be delivered until 6 a. m. on historic April 7 so that there would be no "carnival of untoward celebration." Next day at lunch time, New Yorkers thronged forth to try their beer. First problem was to find it. Most hotels and clubs were serving but elsewhere distribution was capricious. Some soft drink stands and cafeterias had it, some did not. Householders found 3.2% beer at most chain groceries, but late the first day most stocks...
...Baltimore, whose State Government had just passed local option laws, Henry Louis Mencken, famed for his beering, quaffed a glass before anxious spectators in the Rennert Hotel bar. "Pretty good." he pronounced. "Not bad at all. Fill it again...
...lame duck was ever better fitted for such a job. Mr. Moses knows news. It was to gratify reporter friends anxious for a Monday morning headline that he dubbed his irreconcilable western colleagues "The Sons of the Wild Jackass." For this mot and the animosities behind it, he was not re-elected to, although he retained, his Presidency pro tem of the Senate throughout the 72nd Congress. His friends believe that his sharp tongue was what really lost him his Senate seat...