Word: eagerly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...soul yearns for peace. My heart is anguished by the sufferings of war. My spirit is eager to serve. My passion is for justice over force. My hope is in the great court...
England seems eager to negotiate on the basis of the latest German note which proposes an impartial commission to fix reparations and guarantees; Italy and Belgium are not satisfied with the present situation. But France, if we may believe the French press, raises three objections: first, that passive resistance must cease, second, that there shall be no examination by outsiders of Germany's capacity to pay, and finally, that any abatement of France's claim on Germany must be met by a corresponding abatement of the English and American claims on France. If Mr. Baldwin can unravel this tangle...
...Comrade Ratsky and I have been eager to find some results of our masterpiece. We were the first to reach the class-room this morning. The inscription was erased. In its place some one had written: "There's my jolly English gentleman!" More stupid indifference; or perhaps could it have been sarcasm...
...Frank Vanderlip, banker and economist, has recently indicated his preference for the western as compared with the eastern student. The college man from the West, says Mr. Vanderlip, is far more eager to learn, but is handicapped by an inferiority complex. Mr. Don Seitz, Managing Editor of the New York World, in his article published in the CRIMSON this morning, while hesitating to draw any invidious distinctions, attacks the same problem--lack of eagerness for intellectual knowledge, lack of interest in the questions...
...gain a sound, well-paying profession. Of course, the number of people who study singing in this country is out of all proportion to sense. The American woman is possessed of a gnawing ambition to sing. She studies voice in great numbers and at vast expense. The eager intention to sing and the study of singing are praiseworthy enough-if the aspirant has any voice. In Italy, where singing is a most natural act for anyone and where music has been long established as one of the best professions, far fewer ladies study voice than here, because in Italy some...