Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...portions of the clothing is as yet undistributed and will be used for the aid of Harvard students. Mr. Amazeen is anxious, that all students who are in need of clothing should appear at Brooks House as soon as possible...
...Anxious to hold Bonus enthusiasm in check, the President made public a 1,150-word letter he had written to the commander of an American Legion Post in Texas. Without at any point flatly rejecting the Legion's demand for immediate payment of the Bonus, he explained in detail just why that demand amounted to holding up the U. S. Treasury for $2,320,000,000 over and above the Bonus originally voted to veterans by Congress...
...Senators McAdoo, McKellar, Gibson and Tydings completed a three-week visit in the islands undertaken by Filipino request. Already a convention had drafted a Constitution for the forthcoming nation, had made preparations for the "Commonwealth" during the ten-year transition from dependence to independence. The four venerable gentlemen were anxious to find out how their 12,000,000 little brown brothers felt as prospective fathers of their country...
...family. . . . May I add, very simply and sincerely, that if I may be regarded as in some true sense the head of this great and widespread family, sharing its life and sustained by its affection, this will be a full reward for the long and sometimes anxious labors of my reign of well-nigh five and twenty years. ... I commend you to the Father of whom you and every family in Heaven and on Earth is made. God bless...
Certainly, the danger of which the Director speaks from the administration need not be feared with President Conant in office. Thus the only danger left comes from the "professional" Harvard graduate who is so anxious for Harvard to win that he will personally finance athletes through college or insist on a Crisler or a Little to take his charges in hand. To counteract this, however, are the large number of graduates who are more anxious to see football played by undergraduates than mechanized for the audience. Therefore, Mr. Bingham's speech should give the student body, and more particularly...