Word: anxiously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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These days droves of fresh young M.A.'s and Ph.D.'s who proctored here leave Cambridge every year, anxious, among other things, to spread the gospel of thoroughly supervised examinations much as Plato's pupils left Athens to tell the world about the soul's immortality...
...Anxious to conform to the regulations, Bowser then requested membership. Jarvis took the group into his office, had them all leave their names, and said that "application forms" would be sent to them through the mails. Cater and Jordan left for their half-empty drinks, and Bowser and Pierce for the sidewalk...
...shore of Hudson Bay. Artillery, machine guns, snowmobiles and winter clothing are being tested there. So are a few planes - DC-35, Mosquitoes, and a Halifax. Jet-propelled planes? Said McNaughton:'"There is nothing of that sort up there. . . . There is not a thing we are the least anxious about. I'm afraid if anyone is expecting something like rockets capable of reaching the moon, he will be disappointed...
...lightweight champion, was game. He braced himself on his good leg, tried to slug it out. The second time he went down, he stayed there, helpless. The referee, and Tony's manager (see cut), helped Beau from the ring, his face clearly showing his agony. Had the promoters, anxious to cash in on a good thing, killed the golden goose? Oh, no, said one doctor; Beau could be patched up once more, in "ten months to a year, if no complications develop...
...investigation of the '49 Red Book finances shows clearly how inadequate the tenuous control of the Student Council has proven. The Class of '49 has been advised by the probers that the Red Book will be distributed next June. Such assurance may console subscribers holding three dollar receipts, but anxious advertisers may be less elated. Of far larger import than the fate of this year's book is the long run repercussions any additional defection will have on selling space in future Red Books. Patently some supervisory body other than the Council is indicated to unify successive Freshman efforts...