Word: eagerness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...churchmen deny that the ministry has candidates aplenty. But there is dissension as to what to do about them, how to get quality in place of quantity. In a New England school last fortnight met a group of Episcopalians, to tap the wellsprings, the colleges, for eager, able young ministers. They held a New Year's meeting on the Ministry, as had been done every three years since 1920, and as will probably be done annually henceforth. The meetings are sponsored by Rev. Dr. Samuel Smith Drury, rector of St. Paul's School (Concord, N. H.). Secretary...
...weeks eager Democrats have been flocking to Albany to learn the wishes of the next President. Governor Roosevelt talked with them at long length but always in general terms about what he wanted, what he did not want. Visitors returning to Washington spread their ideas of the Roosevelt ideas, with the result that everyone was speaking for the President-elect and no one knew his mind...
Technocracy, the nation's newest fad, is a theory formulated not by a group of scientists carrying out investigations in a scientific way, but merely by a group of faddists, eager to put a few startling and unreliable figures before a depression struck people," said E. S. Mason, associate professor of Economics, in an interview yesterday. "It shows what a love of fads the people of the United States have, but you can't blame anyone for turning to any new panacea, however dubious, in a depression of this sort...
...valuta-a difficult thing for a Russian to obtain. Last week the bars went down a little. To increase the State's stock of silver, Torgsin was authorized to accept silver plate and old jewelry as valuta. Next day Torgsin stores were jammed with hungry, ill-clad natives, eager to swap silver for rough clothing and such luxuries, dear to Russians, as smoked salmon, butter, caviar, vodka. Prices were steep. It took a kilogram of silver (2 3/5 lb.), worth about $7.80 in Manhattan, to buy one pair of Torgsin shoes. Two pounds of butter cost 137 grams...
...popped Mrs. Mackay indignantly not in the least indisposed. Nor was she, as the New York Daily News suggested, suddenly so eager to string popcorn for the Mackay Christmas tree in Roslyn, L. I., that she had renounced a $4,000 contract. Her Roxy program, she said, had been all arranged. She had planned to sing Christmas carols against a background representing the Nativity. She had even discussed details with the management, decided to use a donkey, dismissed the idea of including a cow. The Roxy management, threatened with suit, admitted that it had been mistaken about Mrs. Mackay...