Word: anxiously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unwarranted assumption to state that, despite the best efforts of the police, beer will be sold in Cambridge either directly to, or for consumption by, minors. Beer is traditionally a college man's drink. And any merchant with a proper eye to his own interest will be none too anxious to require the display of birth certificates. Morally, moreover, the sale of beer to students, albeit minors, would be a move toward temperance in the college, would be rather more in keeping with the spirit of the present liquor legislation, one suspects, than are the widely flung photographs of hilarious...
...During this anxious month there are a good many people who have said what I've been saying for years: Thank God for the French Army...
...said: 'Certainly not. I am extremely anxious to have them all filmed before...
...weeks ago, a postcard was sent to a student in regard to a book which he had sold at a second-hand bookstore four years ago. In another case, a student who came in to reclaim a lost book, caught sight of another one, which he was anxious to buy. On checking with the apparent owner, it was found that he had sold it to a second-hand bookstore the year before, but he cheerfully agreed to sell it again...
...would seem reasonable to suppose that last autumn's mediocre showing has in part prompted this action of the H.A.A., which is naturally anxious under the present methods of making up its budget to produce as good a football team as possible in order to increase the gate receipts, which must support the whole athletic program. Yet it is at the same time unfair to attribute totally selfish motives to the Athletic Association in this case...