Word: eagerly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...eager was President Hoover to push ahead with Farm Relief, to catch this year's harvest at the crest, that last week, before its membership was completed, he ordered his new Farm Board to assemble in Washington for its initial meeting July 15. Five men had accepted service on this nine-man board: Alexander H. Legge, Chairman; James Clifton Stone, Vice-Chairman; Carl Williams, C. B. Denman, Charles C. Teague. Secretary of Agriculture Hyde, the sixth member ex officio, was despatched by the President to the Mid-West, there to search out likely candidates for the other three places...
...cabinets, popular for his eccentricities with Japan's masses, Economist Shishi has a son, Kazuhiko Hamaguchi, at present a research worker in the New York branch of the Bank of Japan. Graduate of the Imperial University of Tokyo, onetime intercollegiate jiu-jitsu champion of Japan, fond of tennis, eager for golf, Son Kazuhiko shares a small villa at Bayside, L. I., with an office mate. Interviewed last week he giggled politely, admitted that his father likes walking and reading, wears kimonos at home, European clothes on the street...
Frank Billings Kellogg: Late Senator, Ambassador to Great Britain and Secretary of State: ever eager in each office to abate recourse...
...abroad. Two of the recipients of these awards graduated Magna and two Summa cum laude. The income from the Sheldon Fund is distributed annually, and beside awards under the Fund to graduate students there are a number of grants made to Seniors who graduate with high standing and are eager to pursue their studies further...
Furthermore class spirit as such would be extremely difficult to construct after all members of the Senior class have been split up into definite and isolated groups. A Freshman is generally eager to make friends; he enlarges his circle of acquaintance beyond that of his past schoolmates to that of his class as a whole. The Senior on the other hand, especially if he has lived with the same group for three years is not as ready to meet the boy from across the hall. He has his friends, interests, and he has divisional examinations to keep his mind occupied...