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Word: eagerly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Isoroku Yamamoto is not the grinning, bowing, breath-sipping little man with horn-rimmed glasses, eager mustache and super-buck teeth which U.S. cartoonists have selected as Mr. Japan. He is not a monster who enjoys killing babies and takes rape after dinner instead of coffee. He is, instead, a hard-bitten professional man with a sixth sense-hatred...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Yamamoto v. the Dragon | 12/22/1941 | See Source »

...There the wary British spotted five Japanese transports landing troops across monsoon-chopped waters in the moonlit night. The British rushed to meet them and repulsed the first assault. But the first assault was just a diversion. Ten miles to the south ten more Japanese transports were disgorging their eager little beach-climbers. Here the Japanese gained a foothold, then filtered through jungles and swamps toward Kota Bhary, site of an airdrome and junction of railways running south to Singapore and north to Thailand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The U.S. At War: Fort by Fort, Port by Port | 12/15/1941 | See Source »

...bombs and destruction of the enemy. We know that after it is all over it will be some of us who will have our names engraved on the College's bronze memorial. We can see that it is our job to light, and we are not only willing but eager to accept our task...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Sun Also Sets | 12/8/1941 | See Source »

...under which students at the School do part-time work in church parishes in the greater Boston district, were granted to Reginald A. Berry, Akron, Ohio; Russell R. Bletzer, Roslindale; Lewis V. Chapman, Rochester, N. Y.; John A. Dahlstrand, Newport, R. I.; Henry T. Dohrman, Compton, Calif.; John W. Eager, Fitchburg; William H. Fox, Dallas, Tex.; Edwin R. Freeman, Cadiz, Ky.; Max D. Gaebler, Watertown; James P. Johnson, Wichita, Kans.; LeMoine G. Lewis, Midlothian, Tex.; Eric N. Lindblade, Cambridge; Richard V. McCann, Dedham; William M. Nielsen, Haure, Mont.; John Pillsbury, Manchester, N.H.; Andrew G. Rosenberger, Cambridge; Thomas B. Smith, Bartlett...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 49 Divinity Students To Get $9,315 in Awards | 12/4/1941 | See Source »

...problem. His roommate said he had just the book for him. About Vassar. (Wonderful place, Vag thought. Must get up there and see that Daisy Chain lassie again.) Enough sex so as not to be boring, but serious withal. Just the thing for a flabby mind that was eager to get back into intellectual training...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 12/4/1941 | See Source »

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