Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...deem TIME a splendid medium to "let the outside world know," as Attorney General Albert A. Carmichael of Alabama is anxious for it to know, that Alabama State officials are vigorously prosecuting the sheriff and others because of a lynching in Henry County (Alabama's only one for several years) on Feb. 1 of this year...
...want to take this occasion to say that the Governor of Alabama and the attorney general of Alabama feel very keenly about this matter; that we are most anxious that the outside world know that the Alabama State officials who are responsible in law for prosecuting cases of this character are doing their duty and will continue...
...every sense of the word Rightists were anxious to make hay last week. Harvest time was almost at hand, and neither army will eat this autumn unless the barns are filled in the next few weeks. Reliable reports, too, had it that Rightist Franco's German and Italian backers were giving him his last chance, knowing that the Spanish adventure has become intensely unpopular with humble citizens in Germany and Italy...
After a night and morning of anxious waiting by botanists with 400 spectators flattening their noses against the greenhouse glass, a fleshy spathe began to unfurl from the spadix and spread out in a bell-shaped bloom. The bell was greenish yellow outside, warm maroon inside. At full bloom the circumference of the bell's lip was 12 ft. 10 in. By this time the plant had begun in earnest to emit its characteristic odor-a sickening carrion stench...
...Public Service Commission. Steam's friendly neighbor, Consolidated Edison of New York, which has long owned stock control of Steam, last spring brought its ownership up to 96% in open market purchases which squeezed the price of Steam common from $17 to $33 per share in a fortnight. Anxious to merge Steam with its gas & electric properties, Consolidated applied to the Public Service Commission for permission to offer its own preferred stock in exchange for Steam preferred. There seemed no reason why the plan would not be approved. But the Public Service Commission, in a report dated last month...