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Word: eager (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bitter memories of 1945's 60-0 slaughter and an eager determination for revenge will dominate the thoughts of the Boston University gridders this afternoon when they line up against Harvard in the Stadium at 2:30 o'clock...

Author: By George C. Mcleod, | Title: B.U. Team Out To Avenge '45 60-0 Drubbing | 10/4/1947 | See Source »

There must be some way to catch them. There're get-acquainted dances for our mass debut; and they say masses of eager men come to classify us, Can't you see their mental tabulation of each frosh into the beautiful, the intellectual, and the majority...

Author: By Bunny Wintergreen, | Title: Stadium Viewed As Grim Nexus in Local Manhunt | 9/22/1947 | See Source »

There must be someway to catch them. There're get-acquainted dances for our mass debut; and they say masses of eager men come to classify us. Can't you see their mental tabulation of each frosh into the beautiful, the intellectual and the majority...

Author: By Bunny Wintergreen, | Title: Stadium Viewed AsGrim Nexus of Local Manhunt | 9/18/1947 | See Source »

...where Hannes Schneider's Alberg school has ruled for years, and uncounted thousands have angled their skis in stem and snowplow turns. But to a man, the Portillo pupils raved about Allais. His theories, the Americans predicted, would soon sweep the U.S. Chile's Government, eager to foster Andean sport and latch on to a few badly needed tourist dollars, hopes to sign Allais to a five-year contract that will keep him teaching his tricks at Portillo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHILE: Schuss in the Andes | 9/15/1947 | See Source »

...these crooners had one or more things in common: rumply hair, wistful smiles and the languid air that makes some bobby-soxers want to squeal. As a group they were not necessarily the most promising singers.* But they were fairly typical of scores of eager aspirants to the crown of Crosby, the lesser diadem of Sinatra-or even the rich, purple mantles of Perry Como and Dick Haymes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Languor, Curls & Tonsils | 9/15/1947 | See Source »

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