Word: eagerly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Some frankly believe it impossible. The method has not yet been published in medical journals or before scientific associations, although lack of such facilities in Russia is explicable enough. Rus-sian physicians who have seen the process are divided as to its merits. Professor Katz is reported to be eager to send technical descriptions and photographs of the operation to the Western world, but he will not leave Russia to demonstrate...
...classes most eager to emigrate are former Austro-Hungarian army officers, discharged civil servants, skilled factory hands and thousands of well-educated young women previously engaged in war work. Agricultural laborers, miners, etc., are not seeking to leave their country...
...there was but a single copy of a book available for reference in the library. The instructor added two of his own. All three were stolen. A few days later a six volume edition of a work on Political Science was rendered practically useless because some undergraduate--doubtless intellectually eager -- had ripped out an entire chapter that was included in the assigned reading. The same day a book that was out of print was destroyed by several pages being ripped out. These are not isolated instances...
Thousands of people, eager for success at a minimum cost, support these "institutions", for modern enlightenment has not yet replaced mediaeval superstition. A "royal road" to learning is still sought,--some uncanny alchemy to make knowledge grow where ignorance grew before. Strangely enough, many people would rather trust to the potency of some unknown agent, than rely on the well-proven prescription of self-denial and hard work...
There are very few more touching spectacles than that of row after row of eager theatre-goers, patiently waiting for something to happen to their emotions. Some are defiant. They set their teeth, adjust their faces to a sneer of quiet superiority, fortify themselves against any attack. Others go with their tongues hanging out. If it is a farce, they control their risibilities with an effort until the curtain rises. If it is a tragedy, they will be provided against any lachrymal emergency with pocketfuls of anticipatory handkerchiefs...