Word: anxiously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That Massachusetts will not join the twenty-seven ratifiers of the child labor amendment seems sure now that the church leaders and other prominent persons have sharpened their objections. Just as anxious as anybody to keep youth out of the sweatshops, they are afraid that Congress given the power to "regulate, limit, and control the labor of children under eighteen" will regiment them on fascist lines. Yet time has failed to flush any dark lots lurking behind the measure. Knocked about state legislatures for thirteen years, it has no continuous and cohesive political backing, nor can the the welfare agencies...
...invite students in the graduate schools. From individuals in the graduate schools comes the criticism that the discussion matter is too general. And from members of the undergraduate body we receive recurrent hints that the "Crimson" is running the whole show purely as a publicity stunt. The "Crimson" is anxious to make its position in the Conference clear...
...which stood between them and disaster. The levees were still holding as the hump in the river's back reached Memphis at week's end. High wind or heavy rain might still send the swollen river roaring through and over them. It was going to be an anxious three weeks until the worst U. S. flood rolled out into the Gulf and history...
...loves of Goethe which was first produced seven years ago-does not come up to the stratospheric standards of such earlier Lehar work as The Merry Widow (1905), is a loss not only to J. J. Shubert but to those who love Lehar music and are, like Mr. Shubert, anxious for an opportunity to hear more...
...identical, cases of identical twins who are able athletes are rare. Harvard had her famed hockey-playing Bigelows in 1928-29. Yale had her Driscolls nearly 20 years ago, one an oarsman, one a trackman, neither brilliant. Indiana State Teachers College had twin sisters named Sonafelt who were so anxious to have identical records in everything that one, a much better high diver than the other, would wriggle into her sister's place at swimming meets and dive for both. Best twin legend is that of the Sherman boys of Brooklyn, Charlie & Joe, who are supposed to have...