Word: eagerly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...work they have done to secure legislative protection for women in industry. The argument of the National Woman's Party may be represented by an argument from the speech of one Mrs. Mary Murray: "Women in industry need to be protected against their protectors. Those who are so eager to protect us, placing us in a class of weaklings, unable to decide for ourselves, are divided into two classes: the nonworkers and the professional uplifters. The nonworkers want women brought back out of industry so they can have plenty of maids. The professional uplifters are working women, all right...
...Roman history during the second half-year, in the absence of Professor W. S. Ferguson in Europe, said, "Probably because both Latin and Greek are rather difficult to master, students at Harvard, as well as in Liverpool, tend to avoid these studies. I find that American students are eager to learn and co-operate splendidly with the professor. I have never seen a finer library than Widener, for the organization is such that research is made most easy." Professor Halliday was graduated from Oxford, 1908, and has since held professorships at the Universities of Glasgow and Liverpool...
...from the competition, and as a result finds himself out of touch with college life. Then there is the man who feels the old, old urge of writing, and needs the stimulus of a competition to keep the flame burning steadily. And finally there is the undergraduate who is eager to apply the knowledge he has been absorbing, who wishes to test his powers of handling the multitudinous facts he has been patiently learning, who is prepared for a searching examination of his own powers of judgment...
...canvas of her future, Mr. Houghton, soon to be U.S. Ambassador to Britain (where he will not be allowed to remain silent), proposed a toast to Baron von Maltzan whom he described as "always calm, always steady, with an unshaken belief in Germany's future and with an eager desire to rebuild her relations with America on a lasting basis of peace...
...Milton, the three victims of the Freshmen to date. Hebron will come to Cambridge with practically the same line-up as that which defeated the 1927 five in two overtime periods last year and should extend the Freshman quintet to the limit. HARVARD M. I. T. Smith r.f. l.g. Eager Leekley l.f. r.g. Ingram Rauh c. c. Wilcox Samborski r.g. l.f. Forrester Morrison l.g. r.f. Hinck