Word: anxiously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Savannah's potent Citizens & Southern National Bank, anxious to lure big business to Georgia, lent Union $1,000,000 outright. From other banks $1,500,000 was obtained. Union stockholders bought enough $30 shares of Union common stock to provide an additional $1,500,000 needed. Union's Savannah plant started operation in July 1936 and Union has now caught up fully with the paper revolution. Last year it made 7,000,000,000 of the U. S. total of 50,000,000,000 paper bags. Its $10,800,000 bag sales were...
...Dean expressed himself as anxious to see the final law school registration figures of this year to see the effect of the new "increased selection" admissions policy, of which he spoke strongly in favor. "The policy is based upon the finding that there is a class correlation between a man's work in college and his work in law school," he asserted. He claimed that those excluded would have had at least a 60 per cent chance of failing, and he hoped that the effect of the policy would be to reduce the number of the failures in the first...
...twelve submarines in the Spanish Navy at the beginning of the present war,' Francisco Franco controls but two, could not possibly be responsible for all the "pirate" attacks in the Mediterranean in recent months. Germany at present is anxious to stay in Britain's good graces. Almost every foreign observer agreed last week that the pirate submarines must be Italian, based at Majorca, Genoa and Sicily...
...world lost a satirist when Author Wells turned popular pamphleteer. In Brynhild he gives them further matter for exclamation, in such thumbnail flicks as these: "His normal expression was one of patient self-confidence, varied by lapses into great mobility when he was exercised by a business suggestion or anxious to be effective. Then he gesticulated, brought his face nearer to his interlocutor and spat slightly as he became emphatic. Finally he would wipe himself up so to speak and become suddenly immobile again, with his face interrogative and a little askew." . . . "No one could be so learned and wise...
...Moore's recommended preventives: C. Reading "psychologically inspirational articles'' in newspapers, such as "Advice to the Lovelorn" by "Beatrice Fairfax" (whose real name is Marie Manning) fills "a need which we as physicians in public institutions are slow to recognize, namely, the desire of anxious persons to come in contact with the thoughts of others on daily problems...