Word: eager
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...these changes Mrs. Bunting had the sanction of a large majority of the students, eager to cement with the Faculty members all too frequently exhibited their existence only as a voice from the of Lowell Lecture Hall or a grade on a bluebook. Many 'Cliffies were anxious to learn for themselves whether or not Harvard's famed ner-table education" was really the myth their cynical friends from the Common claimed. Most of them found that it was, but also discovered that their favorite professor, from his den in the Widener might prove entertaining if not Undeniably, Mrs. Bunting...
...older I get, the more eager I am for knowledge. Girls do not realize how much they don't know until they leave school...
...Billie Sol Estes scandal just kept growing and growing-and every time an answer turned up, so did a few more questions. Last week the New York Herald Tribune (see THE PRESS) got its eager hands on a copy of the Agriculture Department's secret report on Billie Sol's cotton manipulations. Dated Oct. 27, 1961, the 140-page document clearly warned that Estes was a sleight-of-hand wheeler-dealer. Yet, three weeks after the report was submitted, Secretary of Agriculture Orville Freeman confirmed Estes' appointment to the National Cotton Advisory Committee, and the Pecos Ponzi...
...treasures that apply now in all major Western countries but the U.S. and Switzerland, ruled that he could not take it away. Baron de Schwiter, a diplomat, got an Austrian colleague to smuggle it out anyway; now, decades later, it has ended up in the U.S., the country whose eager art buying inspired most of the protectionist laws elsewhere. Last week the Boston Museum of Fine Arts announced that it had acquired the Tiepolo in Paris from the last of a series of owners who succeeded the baron. (The Louvre, which can prevent the export of any such treasure, felt...
...Light Reading." By far the best source on the subject was Presidential Press Secretary Pierre Salinger, who not only helps pick the boss's reading matter but shares Kennedy's feelings about the Tribune. Salinger was so eager to talk about the cancellation that he began dropping broad hints all over-although no one caught them at first but CBS and the Washington Post. Then, as reporters began pressing him for an explanation, Salinger put out several-each one contradicting the one before. After all, said Salinger, the boss "can read just so many papers. We get five...