Word: anxiously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...precocious growth of the infant study of psychology brought about this development which, little known to most students, has been going on slowly since 1940. In that year of anxious peace in the United States, the Psychology Department, in its cramped old quarters on the top floor of Emerson, called for more space to initiate a Psycho-Acoustic Laboratory to do original research on the problems of sound and its effect on the human car and mind...
Exactly 90 minutes before the kickoff, assuming good visibility and good passing conditions, a large bite will be taken out of Old Sol, although the astronomers promised no detectable loss of light for those anxious to anticipate evening conditions...
Knowing the hardships of covering the news in Russia, we were especially anxious to hear from our Moscow correspondent. When he did not reply after a decent interval, we re-queried...
Sprawled out in a semi-conscious state on the forty-yard stripe, late in the game, a scarlet warrior provoked the quote of the afternoon from a slightly anxious Crimson rooter, who bellowed, "Bury him where he's lying--we haven't any time to waste...
...Molotov's statement yesterday before the U.N. Assembly. Russia favors international control of atomic power, but is still unable to agree to the proposals of the western democracies. She approves reunification of Germany, but not necessarily along the lines set forth by Secretary Byrnes. Both Stalin and Molotov are anxious for all the major powers to reveal the strength of their forces in "alien, non-enemy" countries; but Russia does not regard as "non-enemy" the countries in which most of her "occupation" troops are stationed...