Word: eagers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...eager fellow beside him was starting a new page, but Vag quickly capped his pen to free his hands for action. He listened intently as the professor capped his pedantic climax with rhetorical summing-up, cleverly designed to wake the sleeping in time to applaud. Three Cheers for the Reading Period, Vag thought, as he led off the clapping, and then pushing past the knees of the notebook-filler beside him, found the aisle at last and then the stairs...
...method of keeping discipline which is completely out of date. . . . It is bad for the child and it is very bad for the adult who administers it. [But] there is also the Ministry point of view.. In saying that I do not imply that officials are sadists, eager to continue the use of caning and flogging. I merely say that, as a Ministry, it is important to move with public opinion. We do not advocate the use of corporal punishment, but public opinion has to be convinced that without it discipline can be maintained. . . . The time has come...
...standard anthropological procedure for making friends with offish primitives, Holder explains, is to skirt their territory looking for an "acultural individual"-i.e., a person from outside who has learned their primitive ways, or a primitive who has deserted to civilization. He can teach you the language, and is often eager to introduce you to his reluctant friends (it makes him look...
...Eager metropolitan newsmen, on hand for the start, were treated to a sumptous breakfast by sympathizing Prentice LarRieu, Wellesley '50, who arrived at the track just in time to greet the departing photographers...
Approximately 50 eager contestants, aflame to spend the promised evening with "Miss Juno," have released sundry shafts at her elusive identify thus far, the HDC announced last night. In a typical letter summing up the main attraction of the competition, Henry H. Arthur, 2nd '46 penned passionately, "if my answer is correct and the prize includes a date with the above mentioned brunette, I wish to withdraw my entry...