Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...longer will sleepy book borrowers have to compete in the mad "9 o'clock Marathon" to the second floor of Widener Library in order to return the over-night books. There is no more danger of being trampled by the throng of anxious students on the main stairs...
...Prince Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg [Vice Chancellor of Austria, TIME, Feb. 10| . . . likes his wine and his women. But no one has ever seen him indulge in the former to excess. He is much too anxious to curry favor for himself and Austria in foreign capitals to have so far forgotten himself at George's funeral. And I don't care where your information to the contrary came from. I have studied the subject too much not to know that this...
...peace in an election year were most anxious to avoid. Thus last week, with Secretary of State Hull's acquiescence, Chairman Pittman of the Foreign Relations Committee announced that by unanimous vote the Committee would drop the proposed permanent neutrality resolution and propose a 14-month extension of the temporary Neutrality Act, with a few minor amendments. Senator Johnson triumphantly trumpeted...
...pronouncement by the head of the Government on a fundamental issue of defense in the 40 years of my parliamentary experience. Is it to be wondered at that some of us who are not alarmists, some of us who had a large measure of responsibility until recently, feel profoundly anxious...
...blown, windows smashed, obscene decorations and threats are chalked on the conventual walls; a dummy is found hanging in the chapel. Unable to get to the bottom of the mystery, Harriet sends for her savior, Peter Wimsey, only to learn that he has been sent abroad by an anxious Government. The college jitters get worse as the mysterious campaign grows weekly more sinister. In time's nick Lord Peter arrives. Whether he unmasks the ghost before murder is done, and whether Harriet finally yields to his importunity and marries him are eventualities prospective readers would not like...