Word: eager
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...midst of this age of Queen Anne, Pope stood out as the foremost literary man. It was a time of sharp struggle between the Whigs and the Tories and each party, eager to strengthen its position, did its best to draw into its ranks the leading men. The leading writers especially were sought, for political pamphlets had much to do in swaying the popular mind. In this way such men as Newton, Steele, Prior and Addison found their way into high offices under the government...
More important than this is the fact that railroads, in their eager competition. secretly give low rates to firms shipping large quantities of goods. Such firms are thus enabled to undersell their less favored rivals, whose destruction then becomes a matter of time. This, as well as the favoritism shown to large towns, is a direct result of excessive competition...
...Chaucer was a marked contrast. Langley was a novelist, Chaucer an artist. His nature was sunny and genial, he was satisfied to take things as they were, and try to describe not to better them. He was a man of facts; not only was he an eager student, and a prodigious reader, but an accomplished man of the world. He had the best education England afforded, he paid a visit to Italy, and shared in the active life of English politics...
Yale won the toss and chose to take the ball, while Harvard took the north end of the field. A hush fell over the immense crowd, as the two elevens stood there, the Yale men crouched down in the well-known V formation and the Harvard men all eager and on their toes ten yards away, waiting for that blue V to move. At last it started and there was a rush of crimson stockings, a common plunge of crimson arms in among those blue legs, then a confused pile of players, and the great game had started. Yale...
When the central authorities at Constantinople have to be urged for months to give their consent to the expedition, when the journey inland has to be picked with care to avoid hostile Arab tribes, and when the Arabs in and about the excavation camp are eager for the hordes of gold which the expedition is supposed to possess, the man who has such an expedition on his shoulders has to possess a good deal of resolution. Dr. Peters modestly gave an example of his tact by telling how he worked upon the superstitions of the natives by an abundant display...