Word: eagerness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...silent testimony of the desire of the officials in charge to allow men to show what they did know instead of what they did not know. But the length of the examination cut short (because of the purely physical limitations of writing) the answers of those who were eager to push beyond the obvious and often repeated facts...
...eager for the treat...
...honor roll of "The Nation" for 1929. He is listed as one of three men who have distinguished themselves in the field of Science. The caption after his name reading, "for a series of lectures on astronomy in New York City which were heard with delight by large and eager audiences but which did not yield any portion of their scholarly profundity to popular taste...
Having already been besieged by a swarm of eager newspapermen and photographers during the whole day. Amos'n Andy appeared in no way the "funny men" that a popular conception holds stage comedians to be off stage, when a CRIMSON reporter finally gained entrance to their dressing room last night. As a matter of fact, the curly-haired young man who finally escorted him down the stairs and along the long corridor under the Metropolitan theatre seemed well on the way to reversing the situation by interviewing the reporter, for by the time they had reached the dressing room...
...Committee and a great Soviet protagonist, acted more directly. Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, onetime Assistant Attorney-General, now Washington attorney for The Aviation Corp. which owns Alaskan Airways, begged him to intercede. He cabled to Maxim Maximovich Litvinov, Soviet Commissar for Foreign Affairs at Moscow. At once the Russians, eager to repeat their glory of rescuing the wrecked Italia crew, ordered out three planes stationed within flying distance of Eielson's disappearance. They also telegraphed and radioed Siberian outposts to send out sledge parties...