Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Prognosis. In Brooklyn, an anxious patient, sweating out an approaching operation at Beth David Hospital, got a card entitling him to first choice of lots in the Beth David Cemetery...
...meetings and many informal gatherings, I feel sure that the thousands of returning alumni will not only renew old acquaintanceships but also be brought in closer touch with postwar Harvard. They will find that the University has never been so crowded with eager students and has never been more anxious to give to these students an education which will satisfy their ambitions and desires. James B. Conant
...firms dismissed employes hours early. In trickles, then torrents, the city's half-million commuters headed for trains. So did thousands of nervous travelers. By 3 o'clock (Eastern Standard Time), vast, gloomy Penn Station was jammed. Both levels at Grand Central were packed with rumpled, sweating, anxious crowds...
...Succeeds Caesar? Behind him Joe Patterson, moody millionaire and reformed Socialist, left an anxious question for his hirelings and rival press lords to ponder. What would happen to the gaudy Daily News, now that its heart had stopped beating? The answer might rest with two other grandchildren of old Joseph Medill, who founded a fabulous dynasty when he bought into the Chicago Tribune six years before the Civil...
Confident that T.W.A. could out-compete B.O.A.C., Frye proposed that the British set up a competing line. But the British, not as anxious to compete as to share, used diplomatic pressure to prevent the Italian Government from carrying out its contract with T.W.A...