Word: eager
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although their first meet is no scheduled until early in January, some 20 energetic and eager Yardling grapplers are working out every afternoon in the Indoor Athletic Building under Freshman Coach Jay Thomas, who is quite pleased with some of his baby wrestlers...
With almost two months of Varsity swimming practice behind him, Coach Harold M. Ulen peered ponsively yesterday through one of the glass panels of his pool office, apparently seeing beyond not only the eager Thanksgiving morning turnouts but the outcome of "the toughest schedule we've ever...
Cars blocking streets half a mile up Massachusetts Avenue . . . . crowds jamming every restaurant, bar, cafeteria, and drugstore around the Square . . . . flags flapping in the breeze up Mount Auburn Street, winding themselves around the flagpoles . . . . masses of human beings seething over Larz Anderson Bridge before the game--eager, hopeful, warm, and equally happy; then afterwards--just a little tighter, a little colder, most of them a little less happy . . . . all of these added up to the first really big weekend of the year...
Numerous small boys on the street contribute to the confusion by calling "scramble," a cry calculated to bring a hail of currency from the passing trolley to be "scrambled" for by the eager bystanders, the resulting fracas being about as mild and gentle as a Boston College-Georgia Tech football game...
...common with his competitors, O'Brien sadly affirmed that scotch would be unavailable for the great mass of eager purchasers. His advice to the frustrated, in the grand manner of a Bourbon queen of France, was "let 'em drink rye--of bourbon...