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Word: eagerly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sell the tickets among eager, gullible working-folk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Racket | 9/10/1928 | See Source »

...over 600 private aircraft, New Yorkers own 387. Other strongly air-minded states are: Illinois-350; Michigan-291; Texas-269; Ohio-231; Missouri-216; Pennsylvania-212. Rhode Island has nine civilian planes; Vermont, only three. Despite the heavy population of the East, Westerners and Middle Westerners are manifestly more eager to soar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics | 8/27/1928 | See Source »

...button-shoes, he shook hands with everyone. It was found that he was the oldest foreign born inhabitant of Cook County; he had been brought there by his parents when he was ten months old. He had a trombone with him which he played at frequent intervals. He seemed eager to tell everyone about the old days when he was a young man and when Chicago was a young city. Said Richard Evans: "I knew Chicago before it had a railroad, a paved street, a trolley car, or a telephone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Old Man Evans | 8/20/1928 | See Source »

...last act exhibits further highlights in the sky pilot's hypocritical career. He is the Rev. Dr. Elmer Gantry now, but no less eager to share a bed of shame. At the end, there is no lessening of his success nor any change of tactics. He is seen spewing, before an unseen congregation, a prayer that "we may make this a moral nation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: New Plays in Manhattan: Aug. 20, 1928 | 8/20/1928 | See Source »

Dictator Mussolini, eager for records, frowned upon trans-Atlantic hops. To Record-Holders Ferrarin and Delprete, however, he could not refuse permission to attempt the long and difficult flight from the mainland of Europe to South America. Pilot Clarence Duncan Chamberlin and Passenger Charles A. Levine had set the airline distance record at 3,911 miles with their flight from Roosevelt Field (N. Y.) to Eisleben, Germany. The distance from Rome to Brazil, by any calculation, is over 4,000 miles. Ferrarin and Delprete took off from Monticelio Flying Field, Rome, last week, in the same single-motored Savoia-Marchetti...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: 3 Records, 3 Months | 7/16/1928 | See Source »

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