Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...League of Nations' Committee on the Court, anxious to have even temporary U. S. participation, approved the Root Formula eagerly (TIME, April 1 1929). But Senate diehard opponents of the Court hoped the President would keep the matter on his desk for a long time. Last week Floorleader Watson said he would support everything else the President had proposed, but would fight entering the Court as he had fought it since "before he (Mr. Hoover) was even Secretary of Commerce." Senator Moses of New Hampshire, perhaps meaning to give notice of a "concealed" filibuster against ratification, quoted the Bible...
...advised all first rate pures to turn professional if they wanted to support their families. After having won the amateur championship, little remains but to turn professional. The fight game has changed completely in the last ten years, Sharkey believes, as most of the boxers are married and are anxious to salt away what they...
There is one difficulty in the idea. It puts a premium upon speed. A good man will be anxious to prove his worth by graduating as rapidly as possible. It is impossible to absorb a large amount of reading in a short space of time, and reading is a necessary complement to a thorough study of many subjects. It would be very difficult, for example, to graduate from Harvard in one year in the field of History. One of the greatest advantages of the four year system is the time it allows for careful, digestive reading. But this objection merely...
...lives there still, alone with two trained nurses. In 1918, anxious to help young artists, he deeded the entire property to the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, endowed it with $1,000,000, appointed a board of trustees, arranged that 50 young men and women artists should come each year to Laurelton Hall to paint, spend the summer...
Recently the Rockefeller estate decided to offer 56 acres of land including God's Thumb to the city as a public park. Eviction notices were served last week on all residents, including Sculptor Barnard. Reporters, anxious to see what he had been doing for the past ten years, rushed up to interview...