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Word: anxiously (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rumania is about to hold a general election, and towering Statesman Titulescu stepped from his Wagon-Lit to declare: "In this hour of gravity I have had to return to my country to take part in portentous events. I am anxious to face my foes with restraint and courtesy. However, if they compel me to do so, I shall show them I can fight not only with the weapons of Geneva but with those of a gypsy encampment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Poison & Gypsy | 12/13/1937 | See Source »

...Ulysses S. Grant at Long Beach, N. J. to protest against what he considered oppressive tax maneuvers engaged in by the Secretary of the Treasury. During the conversation Grant asked: "General Wistar, have you any friends in Philadelphia who would buy that cottage across the road? I am very anxious to dispose of it." Wistar, suspecting that he was being felt out for a bribe, departed indignantly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Benefactor of Science | 12/13/1937 | See Source »

...other is something of a record, dating as it does from pre-New Deal days, when Franklin Roosevelt was Governor of New York State, Mr. Carlisle's bailiwick. But now, with a Grade A business recession on his hands, the President, like Mr. Hoover in 1929-30, is anxious to persuade the great utilities industry to cut loose with a big construction program which would stimulate heavy industry (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: General Feeling | 12/6/1937 | See Source »

...pages ticket agents did a good business passing out $5,000 insurance policies, covering death and disablement and good for one day's travel, at 25? apiece. Now, so phenomenally safe are railroads, fewer riders bother to insure. But air travelers with no such feeling of security are anxious to insure beyond their ordinary life insurance, and insurance groups have long pondered what rates they could make to obtain this potential new business. Last week, Air Transport Association of America announced a new $5,000 policy for airline travelers, roughly similar to railroad insurance, and at the same price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Sky Insurance | 12/6/1937 | See Source »

...provided for in Playwright Kingsley's script was Spit's real-life pursuit of Francey. Ardent notes, visits to her lodgings, abrupt intrusions into her dressing room caused Actress Green anxious moments, finally brought Spit before the Stony Creek, Conn., police. Warned there and released, he worshipped from afar until the company returned to Manhattan, disbanded about seven months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Sequel | 11/29/1937 | See Source »

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