Word: eager
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...services have called upon the colleges to supply a continuous stream of officer material, and the campuses of America have become a maze of recruiting offices. Each service, vying with every other to fill blue-sky quotas, is dangling free deferment before the students' eager eyes. Little attempt is being made to fit the supply of college men to the specific needs of the various armed forces, and Selective Service Headquarters finds itself on the spot as the Army and Navy Reserve plans cut the heart from its quota. Many students, skeptical amidst the wealth of opportunity, are still "waiting...
...Alice" approach, however, is by far the riskiest, the "Alice" who responds will inevitably turn out to be that eager-looking individual you saw yesterday, the one who occupted the two seats across from you on the trolley...
...blonde talking fast to three boys, and another girl, with two males. Vag strolled over to Weld. Weld was easy. He knew that all you had to do was walk into either entry, call "Hey, Alice" loudly, and every door in the hall gave forth with a donation of eager women students. Vag tried walking up the steps indifferently, threading his way between the couples. It couldn't be done indifferently. He went into the north entry and yelled "Alice. Hey, Alice...
...months ago, which presumably meant the backing of the President. But if Churchill is for it, it is something which he has evidently been forced to accept. No soldier man has the final yes or no on this momentous decision. But U.S. generals were evidently more eager than British, as evidenced by the activities of Lieut. General Brehon Somervell (TIME, June...
Still the King. A year ago the U.S. thought a by-product of aluminum expansion would be the breaking of Alcoa's 50-year monopoly. Many other companies-notably Reynolds Metals, Olin Corp., Bohn Aluminum-seemed eager to cut into the field, especially since the U.S. Government was ready to finance them 100%. But Alcoa is now making 750,000,000 lb. and has taken 512,000,000 lb. of the Government's first 640,000,000 expansion and every pound of the second 640,000,000-lb. project. Result: in March 1943 the Alcoa trade-mark will...