Word: anxiously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Parliament gave little indication of going all the way with M.P. Lindsay, but Britain last week seemed as anxious as most of the other victorious nations to hang on to its war prisoners. More than 14 months after the war's end, some seven million Germans and Japs were still held prisoner in Allied countries. From Germany and her satellites Soviet Russia alone still retained an estimated four million. From Japan she held a million-odd more. Throughout the U.S.S.R., in coal mines, lumber camps, vineyards, construction camps and factories, from Manchuria to the Urals, they labored...
...door at 201 South Ashland Boulevard, in Chicago's highly unfashionable near-West Side, is open to anyone in trouble. Here come battered bums, anxious women, soul-sick businessmen and troubled ministers of the Gospel. They come to talk to Father David Edward Gibson. A white-haired old man, he sits at a cluttered desk, confident that God guides him in his work...
...Anxious to point out that the issue is not as critical as some of the sentimental arguments about the classics requirement would lead one to believe, President Conant said, "My support of a single A.B. degree with no classical language requirement is well-known and has not changed since my annual report...
...philosophy courses were too narrow or taught in monotones, and the Gov and Ec was too specialized, or somehow irrelevant to his own thinking. They seemed to have no roots. He had stumbled upon General Education. He liked it. There were roots and there were teachers who seemed anxious to teach. It made him wish he had it to do all over again as he entered the yard to grow in wisdom. I. A. Richards spoke of the "Iliad" and the sources of western culture, communicating with a passion. Beer, the same Sam Beer who was once...
...musicians, whom the New Yorker rated as members of the best collegiate band in the country, are anxious to maintain their pre-war standards of color and size. Walter J. Skinner '48, Band treasurer, said that the wider student support was necessary if they were to be guaranteed the Hanover trip. An additional collection at the greater Holy Cross game attendance this Saturday was suggested...