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Word: eagers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Close to a half hundred sweat-clothed, eager musclemen of assorted shapes and sixes turned up in one of the back rooms in the Indoor Athletic Building yesterday afternoon for the first official day of practice at the earthbound sport of wrestling...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '48 Wrestlers Puff Through Hard Practice | 12/2/1947 | See Source »

Despite the serious inroads made on its liquid assets last night by a besieging horde of eager candidates, the CRIMSON's executive board late last night reckoned that a handful or two more might still be accommodated...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brew Still Flowing as Crimson Reopens Gates for Candidates | 11/26/1947 | See Source »

...other plays had brought cheers from Mastodon ranks as they clicked for touchdowns, only to have officials turn one into a safety and disallow the other on a technicality. Penalties also quenched Kirkland hopes, as no less than seven 15-yard fines were slapped on over-eager Deacons...

Author: By Charles W. Balley, | Title: Mastodons Stop Kirkland in 8-2 Climax Grid Encounter | 11/12/1947 | See Source »

...prizes and the honors going to the most . . . repulsively well-informed persons. The man with his hand up first wins the scholarship, is asked to make the commencement speech, is voted the boy most likely to succeed. . . . Our educational system seems now designed to create a race of eager beavers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Too Many Eager Beavers? | 11/10/1947 | See Source »

...appointed manager becomes vastly unpopular with politicians when lucrative sub-contracts are no longer available. Today Cambridge shovels its own snow instead of contracting for a fleet of $5.00-an-hour trucks and 400 men at a net cost of more than $75,000 per snow storm. Those men eager to keep Cambridge from becoming a politician's plum are endorsed by the Cambridge Civic Association. The C.C.A. has also endorsed Richard Morris '44, Roland Shaine '38, Bradley Dewey '08 LL.D. '45 hon., Thomas H. D. Mahoney Ph.D., and Mrs. Elizabeth M. Minot for the Cambridge School Board. Drafted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Smear They Neighbor | 11/3/1947 | See Source »

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