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Word: anxious (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your Nov. 11 issue you print an anxious inquiry from a Boston lady as to whether I am the same benighted person, who, duringthe early part of the World War, claimed that "this War is the greatest blessing that has ever fallen on mankind since the German Reformation." To which virtuous inquiry you reply-"The same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 2, 1935 | 12/2/1935 | See Source »

...driveway in the Foundation grounds CCC men were posted as traffic officers, letting no car enter without a pass from Foundation headquarters, while around the Little White House was drawn a cordon of U. S. Marines, a picked detachment from Quantico. Of late the Secret Service has been obviously anxious about its charge's safety...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: To Georgia | 12/2/1935 | See Source »

...student has never met Mr. Apted, and forms his opinions of him from such accounts as the editorial in yesterday's issue of the Crimson. It is only the occasional student who has cause to deal with Mr. Apted. He is surprised to find the sergeant sympathetic, understanding, and anxious to do everything in his power to make things easier for the student involved...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 11/27/1935 | See Source »

Monday-morning quarterbacks, eager to gloat over successful predictions, equally anxious to justify errors in judgment, last week suppressed their crowings. Cause for their silence was a startling list of Saturday upsets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Surprising Saturday | 11/25/1935 | See Source »

...students surely have the most significant opinions on these matters, are isolated, their favoring of this particular economic adjustment is pronounced. Thus though both camps agree in their denunciation of Communism, the students are the more antagonistic toward, it, and the more thoughtful part of them is the most anxious of all to reform capitalism to meet its red assailant...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A STUDY IN RED AND GREEN | 11/20/1935 | See Source »

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