Word: eagerly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...know you are all eager to lunch on the CRIMSON'S latest sartorial banquet. Here is a variegated bouquet of spring fashions straight from square dealers. Please look at the pictures and read the captions before tearing this up and hanging it on the little hook in the next room...
...most any conference of U.S. educators these days, the topic was bound to come up at the regional meeting of the National Education Association in Denver: What can a teacher do to help that most neglected of schoolchildren, the bright and eager pupil? Last week a genial and tireless public-school man named Eldred Harrington gave an answer that left his Denver audience astounded. "We didn't know what to make of the fellow," said one teacher, "but he certainly was interesting...
Damned Interesting. In 1924 he started a free tutoring service that he has carried on to the present. Then in 1933, at Albuquerque High School, he began to single out his most eager students, drop enticing hints about "a damned interesting experiment" that he and they could do together some time after class. To the amazement of parents and teachers alike, the students took the hints: they began showing up for extra work, not only on weekends but as early as 5 o'clock in the morning. Harrington's Dawn Patrol classes became a standard fixture in Albuquerque...
...money if they don't achieve good grades or credit. Likewise, few want to work for many years towards a degree, and except for teachers, most can not get credit in their occupation for liberal arts study. Yet students, whether they are passive auditors, seeking cultural pleasures, or pathetically eager, seldom lack a genuine interest in learning for learning's sake," one lecturer...
Older and wiser now, Blackstone has replaced four-footed animals with blondes and brunettes who obligingly allow him to stab and dismember them, or occasionally to lock them in coflins. The most eager of his helpers lies on a table where, in full view, a buzz saw runs through her midsection. After smiling at the two segments, he covers the gap with a cloth, and then smiles as the girl walks off the stage in one piece. His other tricks include dancing handkerchiefs, floating lightbulbs, and the appearance of an assistant in a glass box built on stage...