Word: eagerly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Were not only ready but eager to weigh...
...rabbis so eager to provide a chaplain for the few Jewish convicts at Joliet when you take so little interest in the spiritual instruction of the 400 Jewish undergraduates at the University of Illinois...
...lines were canceled last week, presumably to make way for war transport of Hitler's forces. But for Hitler, going to Italy's aid was no picnic. If he did, he might find himself fighting a war on two fronts-the disadvantage which he has been most eager to avoid...
Outside a small room in the County Court House in downtown Manhattan, a mob of 500 clamored to get in. A fiery, black-haired teacher-unionist, Dr. Bella V. Dodd, rushed about shrieking: "The hearing is packed!" Inside the room, jam-packed with newsmen and eager spectators, the curtain rose last week on a legislative investigation of subversive activities in New York City's public schools...
Throughout the Colonies, flourishing circulating libraries and packhorse booksellers spread novels to eager readers, mostly female. The "inordinate passion prevalent for novels" galled Thomas Jefferson, who thought they bred "a bloated imagination, sickly judgment, and disgust towards all the real businesses of life." Puritans and preachers classified novel reading with such female indelicacies as leg-crossing and nose-blowing. First U. S. novel appeared in 1789. The native art had three great models...