Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fire which broke out-in the Converse Laboratories gave a Harvard Research student several anxious moments yesterday morning. Alone on the third floor with his apparatus the aspiring chemist was proceeding with his experiments when a sudden blaze broke out and he was forced to take refuge...
...would advise the approximation of Harvard to the Cambridge model. It can improve on that. It has a tradition of thoroughness which is unknown in England outside the sciences. But why are Americans so anxious to organize things? External organization extends from one's first registration under an incubus of forms, through work, exams, even sport, until the Ph.D. is safely landed. Because spontaneity is rendered difficult I doubt the claim that the system at least assures to the second rate man an adequate education. But if the sincerity and thoroughness of Harvard can be allied with the faith that...
...such pictures as King Kong Hollywood has devised automatons capable of more complex movements than Alpha, but never one that responded to the human voice. Anxious to avoid any suspicion of ventriloquism or of a hidden assistant pushing control buttons, Professor May removed the robot's breast plate, disclosing a mechanism like the interior of an ordinary radio. Publicly he explained that Alpha's repertory of answers consisted of 20 or 30 recordings on wax cylinders, as in oldtime phonographs, which were run off in the control cabinets and reproduced from the loud speaker in the robot...
...number as a whole does leave one pretty clear impression. The writers are, in various degrees of intensity, all espousing a Cause, all embracing a Truth, all anxious to rescue their fellows from aimlessness and unbelief. They would probably all agree that Liberalism Is Bankrupt (though here I may be doing them too much injustice). At any rate, what Mr. Chase calls "yesterday's scientific truth" rouses them to no enthusiasm. Whether this yearning for humanism, salvation, discipline, the Perfect State, social duty, practical reason, a faith that can move mountains, Wisdom, and the rest is a sign of youth...
...million ballots for it feels that the logical results might play an influence in the elections which would be detrimental to the success of the Roosevelt program. There is something to be said for this stand for these accurate polls undoubtedly sway a sizeable fringe of voters who are anxious to get on the band-wagon. If these surveys were carried to extremes, the country might find that the Literary Digest was holding presidential elections...