Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...believe the medical profession will take as too infallible the denial that A.M.A. claims the Office of the Surgeon General made regarding the mustering-out of Army doctors. Dr. Fishbein [editor of the Journal] is too anxious to deny any statement concerning the medical profession ... if any publication other than the A.M.A. Journal made...
Questions & Answers. Anxious, hopelessly confused, Jane decided to take the night train to David's country home. The London station was packed with weary soldiers, sailors, workmen, mothers and children. A friendly corporal appeared out of the yellow fog, and helped Jane through the milling crowd...
They began by buying the printing plant of the defunct Brighton, Mass. Item for $5,500. John Dos Passos, anxious to encourage both the ambitions of the ex-G.I.s and the literary future of New England, promised them a piece on "What's Wrong in New England." Price: a $10 share of stock, a dinner and two beers. For another $10 share of stock, no dinner and no beers, they got Sinclair Lewis to promise an article on New England's writers...
...More than half of the top executives of limb concerns wear prostheses themselves, and are as anxious for improvements as anyone. But so far their scattered research has produced only minor improvements...
...would not for anything forgo the representation of Jewish boys that enroll year by year at Dartmouth," he added. "Some of our outstanding alumni are Jews, as are some of the foremost benefactors of the college. . . . However . . . Dartmouth . . . would lose its racial tolerance, which it is desperately anxious not to lose, were we to accept unexamined the great blocks of Jewish applications which come...