Word: eager
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Awards for "Compensated Church Work." under which students at the School do part-time in church parishes in the greater Boston district were granted to Lewis V. Chapman; Lawrence E. Cox; John A. Dahlstrand; John W. Eager; Frederick E. Ellis; William H. Fox; Edwin R. Freeman; Thomas W. Jolly; Harold B. Kuhn; Nathaniel Lawrence; Robert E. Lewis; Eric N. Linblade; Frederick A. Lovell, Jr; Richard V. McCann; Alexander D. MacNaughton; Malcolm Matheson; Carol L. Shuster; Thomas B. Smith; John P. Voss; Leon E. Wright; Harold O. Worcester; and John L. Yenches...
Closely related to this age-youth division on affairs economic has been a disagreement over the issue of war and peace. Anything but eager to duplicate the 1917 performance, generally held--as last June's Commencement Orator phrased it--to "stand condemned by its record," youth has pointed to post-war economic blind-alleys as the direct outgrowth and aftermath of the war itself...
...invasion of Britain, a Spanish-based blow at Gibraltar, a German-supported Blitzkrieg across Egypt to the Suez Canal, an Italian drive down the Nile, turbulence in the Balkans and a diversion through Turkey, blasts here and there at Perim, Dakar, perhaps at Singapore with the help of the eager little Japanese...
...that Detroit technology-engineers, production men, skilled workers, perhaps machines-might be needed for Defense products, notably aircraft and tanks. In that case Detroit's 1941 models might also have to do for 1942, even 1943. But that prospect made car buyers who thought about it still more eager to buy. Every new car loses about 20% of its value simply by moving off the dealer's floor, sheds further fixed portions of its original value as each new model makes it look more out of date. If there are to be no '42s to obsolesce...
...chubby King Farouk of Egypt nervously gulped down his daily five-pound box of bonbons while his Premier Hassan Sabry Pasha upped the next meeting of Parliament from Nov. 7 to Oct. 5 to discuss diplomatic pussyfooting with Italy. Members of the traditionally anti-British Wafd Party actually became eager for a formal declaration of war against Italy. But there were "appeasement" groups in Egypt and certainly a fifth column. There were, in fact, so many Italian nationals (60,000) that the British announced they would have to be deported to India in batches of 250. As the week...