Word: eagerly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Republicans who favor the bill as it stands, also are opposed to the separation because it would decrease the chances of the bill's becoming law. The President appealed for the passage before March 15 of the 25% reduction for this year. But Republican leaders were not eager enough for such an attempt to report a separate resolution from the Ways and Means Committee. Other resolutions of the same type were similarly shelved...
...when it comes to maturer life, I find that the source of this quality described as courage is simply this--that I never stopped any attempts of mine because I looked forward to opposition. I was regardless of risks and opposition. I was eager to do something in the future. It was that part of my nature which, by its expression, enabled me to look forward and not back, to look out and not in. Now at the close of my life, I do not know any better advice to give to the graduates of Harvard College...
Wide as the world his eager heart is yearning...
...might congratulate himself too enthusiastically. If he faces probation for other causes he vails his stomach--and his neighbors prosper. Nor can there be forgotten the opportunities for intercourse with the faculty gained by a student who takes examination after examination. The instructors are friendly, of course, the student eager for learning. Both appear to their best advantage, cordial, disinterested, and sharing an admiration for the language in question.--An admiration the student will carry to his grave...
Yale a sad disappointment in the Intercollegiate League, is eager to get what solace it can for an unsatisfactory season by triumphing on Harvard for a second by triumphing on Harvard for a second time, and the Blue five considers itself quite capable of carrying for a second time and Blue five considers itself quite capable of carrying out the trampling policy which Yale teams for the past year have threatened to make a habit...