Word: anxiously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...result in an exchange of representatives. In fact no quarrel occurred. When the Sassanian dynasty fell 1,300 years ago all permanent relations with foreign countries were broken off. Successively Persia was ruled by various Arab conquerors, the Turks, Afghans. Recently Shah Reza Khan Pahlevi, who has been anxious to restore diplomatic relations after the 1,300-year lapse, discovered that Nanking was also willing. Hossein Khan Keyostevan's orders promptly followed...
Other women were anxious to learn how to make artificial flowers and hooked rugs, how to mount butterflies, leaves and flowers. Men flocked to boat-building and carpentry displays. Intellectuals shouted answers at a beauteous young woman who read questions from a book. And everyone liked soap-carving, cheapest hobby in the show...
...Anxious to win its first league scalp from Columbia, the weakest of the Crimson's rivals in the Eastern Intercollegiate League, Feslor's men board the train this morning for New York to engage in a return game with the Lions tonight...
...Administration at the moment. It is convinced that planned economy, with its surgical operations, is the maximum good for the maximum number. The people wanted a new deal--they are getting it. And hence painful readjustments must be left to the wisdom of the administration, which is just as anxious as anybody to find the right answer...
...accused of "legalized murder." Able Correspondent Arthur Krock reported for his New York Times: "For the first time since the President was inaugurated ... his administration seems really on the defensive. . . . The signs grow that the Administration feels the airmail is a bear it has by the tail. It is anxious to let go. ... The problem is how to get out gracefully...