Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...battle conditions that they could create all the elaborate mechanical devices with which munitions makers have been whiling away the quiet years. Troops will advance this week under shell barrages. There will be clouds of real tear gas to penalize those slow with their masks. Benito Mussolini is particularly anxious to find out if his newly organized celeri (speedy) divisions are really as efficient as they appear on paper or if the mass of electrically controlled machine guns, trucks, tanks, microphone plane finders and other gadgets with which they are equipped are too complicated for simple Italian soldiers to operate...
...Haiti, Puerto Rico, Colombia, the Canal Zone and Hawaii. When he departed he needed rest?and he got it. He hoped that, with the spotlight turned off Washington, the country would get a rest, too. But when he landed in Portland last week and was met by an anxious conclave including two members of his Cabinet and two of his White House secretariat, the President did not have to be told that the kind of "resting" the country had been doing during the last 30 days was anything but wholesome. The U. S. was calm?but it was the calm...
...scientific conclusion of the whole matter is that statistics collected by such specialists offer no proof, and in fact, no indication of what may be the situation among young people in general. Remember that only engaged couples who are anxious about their sexual affairs would be likely to consult such specialists as Dr. Dickinson and Dr. Dearborn. That . . . will explain why their opinions were opposed by the overwhelming majority of competent persons in the conference...
...bluest blood and has always been considered a Legitimist, the pompous little Court of ex-Austrian Empress Zita in Steenockerzeel Castle near Louvain buzzed with a fury of preparation to pack off her handsome son Archduke Otto to Vienna as "Emperor" at the first opportunity. Sympathizing with Otto but anxious lest Belgium vex the Great Powers, King Leopold ordered every Belgian airfield watched. Officially the Belgian Government informed Zita's Court that she and her son are free to go, but only publicly. For years France bitterly opposed a Habsburg restoration in Vienna but Naziphobia among Frenchmen was rapidly bettering...
...dinosaur trademark to dramatize the age of his petroleum beds, offered to finance another expedition. Last month Dr. Brown bared no less than eight skeletons of the ancient monsters. Last fortnight he uncovered four more. The twelve skeletons are apparently of a hitherto unknown species. In an exultant but anxious message to the Museum last week Dr. Brown reported the welter of bones so tangled that none could be moved until charts and photographs have been made and the entire 25 x 60 ft. site excavated...