Word: eagerly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first known white-faced visitor to come to this continent, Leif Ericson, being converted to Christianity, was so eager to carry the gospel to others that he brought a priest back with him from Scandinavia to Greenland, whence he himself went forth later in search of further shores. Nearly a thousand years later there has come to America a primate among Scandinavian priests, Dr. Nathan Soederblom, the distinguished head of the Church in Sweden and Pro-Chancellor of the University of Upsala...
...drove the Mediaeval youth to walk across whole nations with his possessions on his back in order to hear lectures by the savants of that time. But if modern youths found themselves in the same case, that of having no books, newspapers or magazines, they would be quite as eager to learn of the world and other people and themselves, however far they had to travel. Not until one begins to imagine the horrible possibility of being marooned on a desert island does one realize the debt owed to Gutenberg and Alden and their successors. Immediately one rushes...
Speaking from his early experience, Professor Perry described first the old fashioned type of pedagogical professor, who "wore silk hats and frock coats, and were as eager to save the soul as to instruct the mind...
...provided by the harnessed energy of the elusive atom." Great was the uproar next day from thousands of radioites. " Why did you do it ?" the director of the broadcasting programs was asked. His answer was as abstruse as the subject that prompted the question. Henceforth the radio fans are eager to receive jazz. (For a scientific account of this speech, see page...
After all the middle of September finds the University much the same. During the summer despite the hundreds of eager students still in Cambridge, on learning or on pleasure bent, Harvard does not present its typical appearance. But with the return of September the Yard blooms in its Indian summer, the tutoring schools graduate their annual crop, and your conventional friends greet you with conventional phrases and inquiries about the summer...