Word: eager
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Exeter team, at home on their large court and eager to avenge a previous loss to the Crimson, played a near-perfect ball game and twice were 14 points ahead of the Freshmen. Effectively bottling up pivot man John Rockwell with a tall center who was used against the Crimson high-scorer exclusively, the Exonians won on their accurate shooting and shrewd court strategy...
...people swarmed to Delhi University, jammed together on wooden benches, and sat on the ground in chilling Indian weather to hear the American astronomer predict what a Newsweek correspondent called "a great intellectual awakening" in India. "I have never spoken," said Professor Shapley, "to a more responsive, alert, and eager audience. India is one of the hopes for the world. The sky is the limit for scientific research in India...
...further listener social life, the Network gave eager males a chance to try sales technique on three Cliffedwellers, who picked their prospective dates, over the radio, on the basis of a smooth, steady line. On-the-spot broadcasts of the Dartmouth football games and various University forums let students absorb the local activities without venturing forth into rain or snow or slot outside...
...Recorder. Blackford wrote home as often and as fully as possible, realizing that impressions faded quickly and eager to preserve as much of his experience as he could. "I fear all these stories bore you," Blackford apologized to his wife. But 20th Century readers will be grateful for the sharp little anecdotes and graphic glimpses on almost every page. Samples...
...Near by were posted photographs of scenes from Oxford propaganda plays. One showed a merry group of people standing beside an immense cardboard barometer. They were registering CHANGE, the magic word of M.R.A. The head of the M.R.A. ten-man press corps came forward to meet me-a tall, eager, black-browed Englishman, Author Howard himself...