Word: eagerly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Significance. If the resolution is passed with the Senate amendments, the most important of these is likely to be the one for a report by April 26. Congress is eager to get home and plans to adjourn in May. The debate over a definite lease seems bound to be long and bitter. So it seems likely that a definite lease of Muscle Shoals will be killed so far as this session of Congress is concerned by lack of time, unless Congress stays in Washington much later than it wishes to stay. The effect of the other Senate amendments, by possibly...
Athenian pressmen stood open-mouthed in a little eager ring last week while a powerful, flashing-eyed old man performed the miracle of interesting them in The History of the Peloponnesian War (431 to 411 B. C.), composed by famed historian Thucydides upon the spot...
Voyage. Jolly ship-news reporters welcomed home to Hoboken last week the U. S. liner Republic. Promptly they smelled a delicious story of bourgeoisie abroad. The stewards, deckhands, pursers, eager to chatter, reported that for 51 days they had been nursing a party of middle-western ministers to and from the Holy Land. Gossip insisted: that the ministers had conducted five religious services a day; that none of the ministers had "tipped" during or after the voyage; that several passengers refused to leave the ship because it had returned home one day sooner than the contract called for; that cabins...
...garden truck Henry John used to play. In the house basement he used to watch his mother pickling and canning. The grating of horseradish was an eye-smarting task. But Mrs. Heinz' preparation of this root was so appetizing that it found a ready sale. Henry John was its eager boy salesman...
...have fallen on this one tax issue, without being able to get as far as MM. Briand and Doumer got last week?without being able to get the Chamber to indorse any program whatever for recouping the finances of France. Therefore, M. Briand's triumph was great. The Senators, eager to help him, prepared to "amend" the crazy-quilt bill into something workable. It was considered certain that they will stretch the constitutional limits of their amending power to the uttermost. Presumably when the bill goes back to the Chamber it will embody most of the measures for "indirect taxation...