Word: anxiously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that Hitler has withdrawn formally from the League, the four power peace pact signed by Great Britain, France, Germany, and Italy must be the subject of anxious peculation. Mussolini wants to organize a meeting of the signatories at Stresa, but Mr. Henderson has not been slow to see what a tremendous blow at the diplomatic standing of the League this would entail. By blocking action at Stresa, he hopes to force Hitler back into the Geneva parley, but it is highly questionable that this can be done. For Hitler's dominance, like the dominance of any dictator, depends upon...
Petitions were posted yesterday in all the House by students who are anxious to organize a 150-pound football team. As soon as there are enough signatures, a formal petition will be tendered the H.A.A...
...like that of 1923, through which France lost several million francs and immeasurable goodwill, and gained nothing of lasting importance. France will fight now only to maintain the status quo if that is threatened by an aggressively arming Germany. And Germany is not arming. England is, of course, as anxious to avoid a world conflict as is the United States...
...bare outlines of his story Poet Robinson fills in not with detailed narration but with long conversations. Anxious to achieve a realistic cadence, he has on occasion too willingly sacrificed poetry to do so. The fact that a line like...
...German state; Europe was tense and waiting; friction in the Balkans was apparent and unpleasantly suggestive of contagious possibilities. And with minor exceptions, those conditions are duplicated today. In such a pacifistic atmosphere, Germany's abrupt withdrawal from the League on Saturday was not calculated to calm the anxious breast or still the palpitations of the fearful heart. Paris rose into the frenzy of Gallic jitters while Italy was officially shocked and Great Britain did its best to ignore the alarum. Dollfuss's Austria feverishly hastened its process of covering the northern border with a maze of barbed-wire...