Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...young (49), scholarly Scottish lord, Victor Alexander John Hope, Marquess of Linlithgow. Ahead of him had arrived his New Deal, the renovated and liberalized Indian Constitution based on Lord Linlithgow's own exhaustive 350-page investigation and recommendations (TIME, Aug. 12). What made 350,000,000 Indians so anxious last week for a sight of the half-dreamy, half-cranky face of their new Viceroy was that the new Constitution gives him the power to be either a messiah or a tyrant...
Symptoms: Mind "apprehensive, alert, anxious and restless . . . a peculiar analogy [to symptoms] seen in pneumonia.'' Closed eyelids tremble. "Gnawing hunger pain in pains the of ulcer.'' epigastrium not Gurgling unlike in the the intestines "and sometimes a mild watery diarrhea. . . . Increase in sexual functions...
Japan had a new Foreign Minister last week in the person of grinning, toothy Hachiro Arita. A career diplomat with a long record of service in Brussels, Vienna, Washington and Peiping, he was always considered a liberal, anxious to see the army curbed until he was sent to China in February. Amiable Ambassador Arita arrived at Nanking on a gunboat with decks cleared for action, has been hand-in-glove with the militarists ever since. Returning from paying his respects to his Emperor last week, the new Foreign Minister announced with a wave of his gleaming silk...
...credit, are not continuing requirements. The 55% margin must be met only at the time a loan is made or stocks are bought. If the stocks decline, the loan or brokerage account becomes under-margined, not in the eyes of the law, but from the viewpoint of the anxious banker or broker. The Reserve Board blandly insisted that this had been true all along...
Unfortunately for his plan to make the Republican pre-convention campaign a testing ground for his liberal principles, the other candidates, anxious to avoid Republican dissension, refused to engage in primary rough & tumble with him or even with one another. If primaries selected only uninstructed delegates or delegates pledged to hopeless favorite sons, the Republican candidate would certainly be picked by political horse-trading at the convention. Sure that no dawn-lit face would emerge from a smoke-filled hotel room after midnight, Senator Borah set out to force the issue...