Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Grace's suggestion was received with marked apathy not only by businessmen but by nearly all politicians, anxious to sweeten taxpayers' tempers. Raged Economist Francis W. Hirst in the Times...
...school textbook of Graves's version, further edited by one Merrill P. Paine, Elizabeth, N. J. school teacher. Readers who took the trouble to compare The Real David Copperfield with Dickens' original found Graves's version an actual improvement. Even after Schoolteacher Paine's anxious revision of the revision, David Copperfield is a better book than it was. Many a reader who thinks himself a Dickens-lover could read this version without noticing any changes. None of the famed scenes, characters, dialog is missing. In the English edition Graves shows the kind of thing that...
...license basis there must be a public hearing with due notice. Any such sensational procedure would take time and would mean that the hearing would afford an opportunity to try the case in the court of public opinion, which is something the motor car executives are anxious to do. For they could prove that as employers they have not exploited their workmen either on hours of work or rates of wages...
...fascist coup d'etat, the unification of the State, and the subsequent elimination of the "internationalist disturbers"; the socialists and communists. The last riots on the boulevards were the preliminaries to a real bout. The parties involved have had a taste of direct action; they will be anxious to rectify their tactical mistakes and recapture lost opportunities. And in the end, when France is psychologically ready to regain her place at the head of Europe, her attitude will be, barring the intervention of Providence, vastly more dangerous to the peace of the Continent than was even her semi-hysterical desire...
...labor recognizes this is a crucial struggle and is anxious to gain some advantage. It is afraid to retreat or to appear to be yielding. Hence the search in the last 48 hours for the usual alibi to save everybody's face. Every plan thus far has looked toward some supervision of elections to determine who the chosen spokesmen of the workers really are. Labor gains by every such device because Government supervision of elections thus far has merely meant postponing local elections till the labor organizers are sure of a majority...