Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although there is not tutorial in the field, the faculty members are as a rule willing and anxious to help, both during class and out of it. It was the opinion of some of the concentrators, however, that the adviser system could be improved, that some of the adviser were not well enough informed about the rest of the College...
...instructed to call the moribund Committee on Non-intervention into session this week. There Britain will propose that France close her Pyrenees frontier to supplies for a 30-day period, while the committee reaches an agreement on the withdrawal of foreign fighters from both sides. Last week France, anxious to stay on the right side of Britain and thus prevent Dictator Mussolini from driving his desired wedge between France and Great Britain, let it be known that she would accept the British proposals. This temporarily stalled off things, giving Britain another week to hope that a solution to the dilemma...
...Germans astride a motorcycle roaring along the road to Germany near the Czech town of Cheb disregarded an order by a Czech traffic patrol to halt. Word flashed ahead to the next patrol and when the motorcyclists again refused to halt, the guards opened fire. Both Germans were killed. Anxious local Czech officials explained that the guards had merely done their duty, that both Germans were notorious Nazi agitators and had been implicated in previous serious political offenses, but soon the wires in every chancellery in Europe were humming. The Big Question hanging menacingly over Europe was - Would Cheb...
From Berlin, as the crisis-packed week came to a close, the Czechs indirectly received another reassurance. Adolf Hitler himself informed sources claimed, had sent anxious British Prime Minister Chamberlain the guarantee that Germany had not the slightest intention of marching into Czechoslovakia at this stage of the game...
Publicity-hating, 56-year-old John Crichton-Stuart, fourth Marquess of Bute, was quietly sunning himself last week in Morocco. In smoky Cardiff, Wales, an anxious City Council was worried over the rich noble lord's latest business deal. Announcement had just been made that Lord Bute-a collector of castles, the largest individual coal royalty owner in Britain, descendant of the 14th-Century Scottish King Robert III, possessor of 14 titles-was disposing of half of Cardiff's real estate to an unidentified London syndicate. Reported to involve from $100,000,000 down...