Word: eagerly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Citroen auto mobiles, equipped with caterpillar tractors. Along the route M. Citroën had erected many cheap hotels where native jazz bands were to have amused the transient guests. M. Citroën, highly optimistic, had once said: "A new country is thrown open to auto tourists. Tourists, eager for new sights and new experiences, soon will be able to make this once hazardous trip with ease and dispatch. They will be deeply stirred by the magic of this unexplored land...
Present were John P. Morgan, Andrew W. Mellon and many another. Rarely does Banker Morgan speak in public, put on this special occasion he was eager to do honor to Mr. Baker...
After running over the main points of Lee's career, General Maurice observes, "The Lee that I see was an essentially simple-minded man with a keen sense of duty and a perfect trust in God's providence. His nature was not such as to make him eager to investigate the complexities of involved political questions, and his military training was calculated to give him a strange distaste for such investigations." A caricature more libelous could hardly be conceived. To call Lee a simple-minded man is as unjust as in these days of Modernism to suggest that...
...today they have more than 101,000. The mastery of the tasks of administration and educational organization which such vast numbers of students impose is a challenge to the greatest executive talent and qualities of leadership, mental and spiritual, which the United States is capable of producing. In the eager entrance of thousands upon thousands of new students each year into the colleges of the land is the Nation's greatest single promise of a noble and worthy future. May our educational leaders look well to the trust committed them! --Boston Transcript...
...eager young man who made history when an audience lost control. (P.14...