Word: anxiously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ahead of this crew no soft snaps are waiting. Saturday they meet a Tech crew that is anxious to reverse the tables and a Columbia eight that licked Yale by a quarter of a length. Just how much that means is still to be seen, but the race is likely to be close enough to mean that for the second time in as many weeks, the fifties will provide most of the thrills of the Regatta...
...police force in the form of an efficient group of Yard Cops, who are thoroughly prepared to handle the student demonstrations that take place in the Spring. Monday night's fiasco was not unruly, no property was damaged, and no heads were cracked, until the promotion-anxious policemen, lacking any insight of student psychology, decided to use the same methods that are used on strike-breaking thugs and lynching mobs...
...furrowed brows peered at stopwatches. On the cavalcade's return journey any wisps of sleep that still hovered over the 200,000 sightseers were swept away by the rousing brass of massed bands. Because the procession took 30 minutes longer than the schedule allows there was many an anxious head-to-head in the Duke of Norfolk's Buckingham Gate office this week as schemes for pruning a few seconds here and there were solemnly discussed...
...going up and so are taxes, yet Mussolini wants more babies . . . Italy lost over 20,000 of her finest men at Abysinnia and fighting is still going on. Life is tense here: one gets the impression--especially when you talk with the young people--that this is just an anxious period of waiting before the great conflagration. And they are so stuffed with propaganda they think Italy will one day rule the world...
...through Copenhagen's busiest streets, was not surprised when a passing truck driver waved him a cheery salute. Back waved King Christian, and at that moment his horse, young and excitable, suddenly reared, fell down. Beneath the horse one of the King's legs was pinioned and anxious bystanders rushed to help. With a tight-lipped grin King Christian remounted, rode back to Amalienborg Castle as though nothing had happened. That evening, none the worse for his fall, he entertained at dinner...