Word: eagerly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...discovered a method for making the elective system work better than getting people to vote. Most students will vote for the man upstairs, or the eager characters across the hall. That is fine--at least they know their classmates. Too many do not, and so do not vote at all. They could talk to a few candidates and pick a favorite. It wouldn't hurt...
Most of the foreign diplomats still assigned to Nationalist China hurried from Canton to Hong Kong. The British crown colony alerted its 40,000-man garrison, waited nervously for the arrival of the new Red neighbors. Hong Kong authorities let it be known that they were eager to resume trade with and air service to Canton just as soon as its new Communist masters said the word...
Skinner places his pigeons in a small closed box with a button in one wall. The birds must peck at this button at least once every five minutes to be paid off with food. The eager but ignorant pigcon, however, not knowing he will get the same reward with less exertion, will hammer away rapidly for great lengths of time to get his dinner...
...Dutch seem much warmer hearted and less materialistic than their hard-currency neighbors, the Belgians. Most of the Dutch I met this summer were very eager to talk to foreigners, and interested in America. They were cheerful, extremely proud of their country, and loved to talk...
...grossed more from its 40-week run in Philadelphia's Trans-Lux than from all its other pictures in Philadelphia theaters during the same period. Better still, less receipts have to be splurged on costly ballyhoo; a sureseater hit automatically woos the kind of audience that is eager to seek out a good film...