Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only a fat comic section and well-read editorials distinguish the Sunday News. Its book reviews are written by Editor Patterson's attractive, air-minded daughter Alicia who, like her father, is honestly anxious not to be a drone...
...equal to the bounty. He ordered some of the rye placed in bond, pending a decision. Fortnight ago he decided that the Polish imports did not constitute dumping as defined by the Tariff Act. The rye was therefore released for sale with no extra duty. Presumably the Secretary was anxious not to disturb the newborn distilling industry or allow a rye shortage to raise the price of rye whiskey, cereals and bread. But domestic rye prices promptly dropped 1⅝?, then another 1¾, as traders hastened to liquidate...
...Court's opinion, welcomed by many a rich actor and actress anxious to avoid high brackets, found "no valid reason to doubt the testimony of the taxpayer," unprecedentedly recognized the value to an actor of the patronage of newspaper men, clubwomen, social leaders, White House physicians, Cabinet members, politicians...
...announced plans to pilot a balloon ascension near Detroit this summer. With her will go her husband to make scientific observations. Said Mrs. Piccard: "There really isn't much danger. . . . I'll know my two children are in good hands while I'm gone. We are anxious to avoid having to land in the ocean. And I'll be the one to worry about that...
...Handling Arabs. Some of his "27 Articles": "Cling tight to your sense of humour. . . . They make no special allowances for you when you dress like them. You will be like an actor in a foreign theatre, playing a part day and night for months, without rest, and for an anxious stake. . . . Do not think from their conduct that they are careless [about religion]. Their conviction of the truth of their faith, and its share in every act and thought and principle of their daily life is so intimate and intense as to be unconscious, unless roused by opposition. . . . Allusion...