Word: anxiously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more interested was Washington in the doings of 500 official and newspaper women left behind. Mrs. Roosevelt had invited them to a masquerade party?first in the White House since President Tyler entertained for his granddaughter in 1843. Guests arrived in taxis, slipped on masks as soon as anxious Secret Service men had scanned their faces at the entrance. Unmasked but brilliant in the red and gold of a Rumanian peasant, Mrs. Roosevelt greeted each guest at the door of the East Room. After balloting for most original and clever costumes, there were songs, skits, supper?all, like the highjinks...
...have King Carol's personal assurance," confided Minister Owsley in conclusion, "that he prefers to do business with American firms. In fact all the Balkan countries are most friendly and anxious to outfit themselves with American products, but for prohibitive tariffs which make it almost impossible for them to trade with this country...
...Fish is also anxious to see closer graduate supervision of football policies. He advocates the appointment of a former captain to "the committee in charge of Harvard athletics" and the formation of an advisory committee of four or five former players...
...Anxious to show what it could do to a Dartmouth team that Yale had nosed out by only five points, Princeton rolled up five touchdowns in the first half, one in the second while Dartmouth...
More important still, a required course may awaken the interest of a student in what is to him a hitherto unexplored field. It is often true that men are not anxious to study subjects about which they know nothing, and in which, for that reason, they have no particular interest. Yet if forced to take the course, they may develop a fascination for the subject which will become a vital part of their four college years...