Word: eagerly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...considered it just a moment behind closed doors ; then opened the doors, had the motion to confirm put and answered in unison with a rumbling "Aye." There is reason to believe that the Senate did not know much about Mr. Sargent when, glad to have beaten the President and eager to go home, it gave its perfunctory assent to the choice of Mr. Sargent...
HARVARD 1928 M. I. T. 1928 Slocum l.f. l.g. Hinck Baldwin l.f. r.g. Wilcox Green c. c. Eager Barbee r.g. l.f. Cohen Meisenbach l.g. r.f. Forrester...
...wrestling, Zaikin refused to continue. Why? asked the referee. Zbyszko, Zaikin explained, had been secretly sticking his large forefinger into his, Zaikin's, ear-a method of attack which he could ill brook, since the ear had recently been operated on. The crowd, eager to believe itself cheated, booed. The referee gave the decision to Zbyszko...
...hold the ceremony of the Daisy Chain. The rotogravure sections of metropolitan papers contain, during that week in June, immense flowery serpents of braided daisies. In hamlets, in far cities, in spacious houses on country roads, friends and relatives of Vassar sophomores seize upon the papers, push eager forefingers along the Daisy Chain, from face to face. If they thus discover the countenance of their friend or relative, they instantly set their heads at an angle, compare some other countenance selected haphazard from the file of flowery faces with that on which their finger rests...
This is the first time that any group of collegiate track men in America have been given this steam bath, but the University runners, unused to it as they were, went through the procedure like veterans. They are eager to return again, but their visit will be postponed until after the triangular Harvard-Dartmouth-Cornell meet on Saturday. It is hoped that the success of this experiment will move the authorities to install the proposed Finnish bath at Soldiers Field...