Word: eagers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...face white, Unruh swayed again in the upsurge of applause. In the square, thousands who had heard him through loudspeakers cheered too. A good many Germans, who were eager to forgive themselves, would not listen to Fritz von Unruh; but even they knew that the voice was the voice of Germany's conscience...
...Fuller Brush Man (Columbia), an eager boob played by Red Skelton, attracts trouble as infallibly as he repels sales prospects. When one of the latter is murdered, Red is suspected. He spends the rest of the picture chin-deep in gunmen, detectives and pretty girls. One of the girls, Janet Blair, is about the prettiest sweater model in movies; Skelton, given half a chance, can be quite funny; the scripters have given him better-than-average chances...
There is still another contradictory element in Harvard's policy. A few years ago when men were returning from the services, Harvard was eager to grant any and all credit that could conceivably be deduced from service records. We're all familiar with the credit given for basic training. Essentially this policy seemed a recognition of two things: one, that experience and education in varying sizes and shapes are valuable; and, two, that people have a limited amount of time in life to devote to their education. Is there any reason for Harvard to have renounced the validity of this...
...observed this byplay; then he took it apart. First he proved that the male would attack as a rival a crude dummy fish with a red belly like his own. Professor Tinbergen then made a dummy with a swollen abdomen. This released a chain of mating reactions in the eager male, which tried to entice the dummy into his waiting nest...
...frustration and exasperation, Minnesota's Walter Judd cried: "We are sitting here doing nothing and letting the world go to hell." But most Congressmen, sobered by the testimony, were no longer eager to cast a vote for the revision plan. Marshall and Austin, though deploring the tactics, were far from decrying the spirit. They asked for a resolution supporting the U.S.'s patient efforts to shore up the structure of U.N. "from within" through the Little Assembly, and restriction of the veto in peaceful settlements...