Word: eagerly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There will be contributions from the ranks--never yet fairly counted--of believers in international good-will, and from many obscure men and women who are working in a hundred quiet ways for the betterment of the world. They are eager to show their faith in progress. They have gained fresh confidence in the popular response to every forward stop taken by the Washington conference. They believe that public opinion has advanced far beyond the position taken by official opinion. They hold that anyone who invests in a closer moral and political organization of the world, in the spread...
History tells us--or is it only legend?--that the first of European universities consisted merely of a group of young men so eager to acquire the learning of their time that they combined their small resources and hired certain Wise Ones to teach them. It is easy to believe that the maintainance of discipline in that school, was easy, as such young men would want to get the worth of their money, and if they though any of the Wise Ones was not giving it, his dismissal would be prompt...
...departed form Chita on the day following the return of Cavallo his assistant. The stories which they had to tell of their find near Machu Picchu made us eager to see the site ourselves. I shall pass over our Journey up the Urubamab canyon, and our discoveries at the foot of the mountain, interesting though they are, until our specialist, Don Calvo, has made fuller reports. Our ascent was made with some difficulty largely because of the debris of centuries...
When to weeks had elapsed without an open session of the Armament Conference there were signs of impatience and suspicion among those who were eager for news of its doings. It seemed to some of these that decisions has been unnecessarily delayed, and to others that perhaps there were sinister influences at work to prevent any real decision whatever. This impatience, if not the suspicion, was natural even though not quite reasonable...
Nearly everybody, who heard the San Carlo Company during their recent engagement here, is convinced that there is a public in Boston for opera. Night after night the house was crowded with enthusiasts eager to hear the great musical masterpieces. Not only that, but as the season progressed, the attendance, instead of decreasing, grew larger. The company was admittedly not of the first rank; yet because it did its work conscientiously and artistically, it won approval and support from all sides...