Word: eagerly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Crimson squad seemed spirited yesterday afternoon and was more angered than disheartened about the close less to Columbia. The team is eager to get back on the victory trail at the Stadium Saturday, although it can't be any hungrier than the Dartmouth eleven, which lost its fourth straight last weekend...
...last week for their annual get-together. They were far younger than the general run of medical specialists -mostly in their 303-and so devoted to learning that they packed the meeting rooms for no fewer than 84 self-improvement lectures during the week. "They're the damndest eager beavers you ever saw," said an oldster (41) among them. They were the members of the American Society of Anesthesiologists...
...receive such thorough and expert training, and few where a bright, industrious and resolute student can gain such a fine technical or scientific background. The New York public schools which produced such notorious gangsters as Frank Costello and Arthur ("Dutch Schultz") Flegenheimer have also sent a stream of eager youngsters out to fame, fortune and high public service. Among them: Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch, Panama Canal Engineer George W. Goethals. Opera Star Rise Stevens, Singer Robert Merrill and Comedian Eddie Cantor. About two-thirds of last year's graduates went on to college this autumn and collected...
Gibbet & Knot. Major André of the 54th Foot Regiment became the goat of the sorry affair. Handsome, cultivated, a poet-painter as well as adjutant general of the British Army in America, he was as eager for glory as Arnold. Let the American traitor turn over the fortress at West Point through André, and the young English major would be firmly set in his army career for life. Caught in civilian clothes at the very edge of success, tried and convicted as a spy, he gave the world a classic lesson in how a brave and debonair soldier...
...Harvard process of learning specializes in a close relationship between faculty and students--they say, Classes are small, like Sociology 1a, a sparse four hundred and fifty eager minds in that one. And each one trying to cram into his notebook the words of an eminent lecturer on the state, separated from then by an elevation of several feet so that he may appear to be apart from the students, mentally as well as physically...