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Word: anxious (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Anxious to take advantage of the Procter & Gamble offer, CRIMSON editors chauffered Miss Shohet to the Quincy warehouse, but arrived after the plant had closed. Their efforts to obtain entrance brought a Quincy patrol car, but no charges were filed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: First Shower-Bather Gets No Soap | 12/20/1949 | See Source »

...student participation; on the other hand, some people will not attend a meeting unless they can listen to a speaker. Berrien feels this often becomes a fourth classroom lecture, which is exactly what he tries to avoid. He supposes that some students are "organically spectators," but he is still anxious to strike a successful balance between speakers and student discussion groups, and he would like to introduce more round tables and debates...

Author: By Petter B. Taub, | Title: Now in Fourth Year, Modern Language Center Mixes Scholarship with Informal Atmosphere | 12/13/1949 | See Source »

...inviting him to subscribe to TIME'S Latin America edition, which is printed in English. Recently we heard from him as follows: "When I received your offer ... I was just starting to take English lessons and I could not read the letter. Now that I can I am anxious to get a subscription . . . and so would like to know the new rate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Dec. 12, 1949 | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

...Anxious to Debate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fr. Feeney to Meet Wallach In Discussion | 12/10/1949 | See Source »

...Lewis, Al Jolson, Bert Lahr, et al. Though most of the skits are single-set affairs shot by a rigid camera, there is nothing static about the movie. Berle's heavy cavortings energize the screen like a buffalo stampede. The fact that his comedy is so desperately anxious to please and so hit-or-miss in its shotgun methods adds a human element that is rare in modern-day comedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Dec. 5, 1949 | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

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