Word: anxiousness
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...inaccurate shooting lost many chances for goals and did not test Harvard's defense. On the other hand Harvard's forwards played with great speed and endurance, and at times showed excellent passing and rushing through broken fields. When near the Princeton goal, however, the men were over anxious and lost good chances to score; and when on the defensive there was entirely too much carelessness for safety...
...scene of "Le Menteur" is the Tuileries in Paris; the time, the seventeenth century. The action of the play centers about the character of Dorante, a young man who has recently returned to Paris from school in Poitiers. Geronte, father of Dorante, is anxious to have his son marry Clarice. The young lady is not unwilling, but would like to see her suitor before deciding. She is loved by Alcippe, but their marriage being constantly delayed by his father, who finds no time to come to the ceremony, she is willing to accept another suitor. Isabelle proposes...
...first two from the point of view of existing conditions in New York. It is impossible to prevent the extensive violation of this law by any ordinary means or to enforce it as one of the general body of laws. Both parties to every illegal liquor transaction are anxious to conceal it. There is no party injured to report the matter to the police and there is upon them the great burden of unearthing the violation as well as of arresting the violator. There is no active public sentiment behind the law demanding its enforcement and according to District Attorney...
...committee in charge of the Library of the Harvard Union has sent out letters to all the undergraduate clubs and literary and religious organizations, requesting them to contribute toward the Library of the Union by donations of books. The committee is particularly anxious that the books should contain the book plates of the donors, so that the gifts shall represent more peculiarly the clubs from which they are given...
...gainer. Sawin stuck to his interference admirably, making one end run of forty yards and another of twenty yards by a dodging run in an open field. Daly and Fincke ran the team with good judgment and made the play faster than heretofore. J. Lawrence was a little over-anxious at the start, but soon settled down and played a strong and aggressive game. Hollingsworth played with a great deal of life, opening large holes, and several times getting through and breaking up Bowdoin's close formation play. Blagden played too high and often failed to down the runner after...