Word: eagerness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...backed hippopotamus" with its belly in the mud, and all the theatrical excitement a peculiar bubble on its back. Yet there was no lack of enthusiasm while he was here. He was kind enough to say that the Barrault company was captured by Cambridge. The audiences were certainly very eager even when their French was not of the best. And often it was an unusual audience, made up of local school girls dutifully herded to Sanders or great masses of the local French colony for whom this was a real occasion. Some of the faithful waited around for places despite...
...office, forgot their bank rolls, their comfortable power and their American cars to recall the humility of Founding Father Mahatma Gandhi. Tailors in a dozen cities found themselves facing a run on khadi, the homespun cloth that Gandhi wore. Untouchables in village market squares were elbowed aside by candidates eager to drink at their untouchable wells. Some untouchables even found themselves invited to Congressmen's homes...
Most of the residents seemed eager to move into Dunster, giving as the chief reason the inconvenience of having to walk to meals. Those preferring to remain in Wigglesworth next year stressed its proximity to classes and Lamont, its uncrowded atmosphere, and the discount which they received on room rent...
Yale also began to foul rather heavily, and the Crimson maintained an almost perfect foul-shooting percentage during the opening minutes of the second half. A Canty hook-shot brought the Crimson within one point, 53-52, at the nine-minute mark, but the varsity became over-eager and the scoring stopped until Downs drove in with a layup to give Yale a 55-52 lead at the halfway mark...
...would like to say something about the great myth, namely, the idea that Radcliffe girls are overburdened with social life. The average Radcliffe girl goes out twice a week at most. She does not turn away hundreds of eager Graduate students. She is not dated up for weeks in advance. She cannot pick her man and then get him. There is much talk about the ratio, but only one of the seven is likely to be interested in going out and he will probably be scared away by the myth. This myth is propagated by many publications, especially "The Freshman...