Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Failing eyesight and mental depression broke his health. The Crown, anxious to honor him, offered him an earldom last May, but Scot MacDonald turned it down lest it crimp the political chances of his son Malcolm who. as Secretary of State for the Dominions, hustled back from the Brussels Conference last week to arrange his father's funeral. Because doctors worried greatly over Scot MacDonald's increasing melancholia, he was sent on the Reina del Pacifico cruise with his youngest daughter, Sheila, for companion. With his body still at sea. the British Government proffered him the honor...
...contract), which means they are in the odd predicament of needing new books even while many of those they print remain unsold. As one of the few doing business outside New York's gossipy, interwoven, competitive publishing circle, Philadelphia's old-line Publisher James Lippincott was not anxious to have his writers speak at the Book Fair. He was afraid that other publishers would steal them...
Such was the epilogue which the foremost living historian of medicine, Professor Ernest Sigerist of Johns Hopkins University added to a book on Socialized Medicine in the Soviet Union* published last fortnight. But to the anxious minds of orthodox U. S. doctors, Historian Sigerist's dictum was prologue to a blood-curdling new excursion into the practice of medicine which the U. S. Government initiated last week...
Already three weeks, ahead of last year's schedule on Senior pictures, the Album committee is anxious to maintain the commanding lead that the House men have made possible by their prompt appointments...
...while not only to examine the Graduate School of Education, which Mann would have recognized as perhaps the American leader in its field, but to suggest possible ways of improving it. Since 1891, when Paul Hanus came to Harvard, Education has been abused and opposed by professors not anxious to have their methods or ideas of teaching criticized and indirectly discarded. Like a talented child who alone knows the weakness of his parent, the School has been suppressed by the minds of the college Faculty and neglected by alumni. No other capital gifts have ever supplemented the original endowment...