Word: eagerly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week he began his prayers and treatments. The Arakelians and their friends, and thousands of others, were eager to believe that someone else had sufficient faith to work a miracle...
...London, Herbert Morrison wore his red tie, and lady Laborites turned up at the House of Commons in their nattiest scarlet dresses. The News Chronicle's Columnist Ian Mackay was in a reminiscent mood. "May Day," he wrote of his youth, "to my eager young mind, was the great annual festival of freedom, when the quenchless spirit of the common man was continually refreshed and rededicated to the endless quest of love and friendship, liberty and peace among all the peoples of the world. How many of us even dreamed, as we marched starry-eyed behind the flags . . . towards...
...Bocayuva, Brazil this week, an eager group of U.S. scientists were happily tuning up their instruments (everything from thermometers to a 6-29). They were waiting for the moon to eclipse the sun on May 20. The scientists had picked Bocayuva, 400 miles north of Rio de Janeiro, as the spot most likely to have clear skies on the big day. If clouds should blind the ground instruments, airplanes will take off early to observe what they can from high altitudes...
...normal person does. But if insulin is added to sugar in a test tube, nothing happens. Why? Apparently the body furnishes other substances to effect the reaction. Dr. Cori has found some of these substances and has learned how they work. But he wants no one (not even the eager Sugar Research Foundation) to get the idea that he knows the whole story of sugar. If he did, he could answer a question that stumps all medicos: just how does sugar fuel the body's metabolism...
When Dean Bender referred to a prevailing "unhealthy emphasis on grades," he wasn't just being friendly, according to Carle C. Zimmerman, associate professor of Sociology. In a warning to all eager beavers in the current issue of journal of Living Zimmerman has words of cheer for the perennial procrastinator...