Word: eagerness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eager Beaver. The Army has long wanted a heavy truck that can splash ashore from landing barges and ford deep streams. Last week it had just the thing, and in quantity. Reo Motors Inc. delivered the last of 5,000 six-wheeled, 2½-ton trucks designed to start, stop and run under water as easily as above it. Called the Eager Beaver, the vehicle is a big brother of the submersible jeep (TIME, May 15). Its engine breathes and exhausts through vertical snorkel tubes like a latest-type submarine. Its wiring system is completely covered with a silicone-rubber...
Equipped to carry a five-ton load through a 7-ft.-deep stream, the Eager Beaver does even better. In a grueling Army test, with the driver wearing a portable lung, it went to a depth of eleven feet, cruised without a sputter on the bottom of a clear stream with fish swimming around it (see picture...
...Shrewd, eager and personable, he was enough of a success by 1912 to be elected Kimberley's mayor at 32 (he was twice reelected, later went to Parliament). In 1917 he teamed up with an American engineer, William Lincoln Honnold, and, with backing from J. P. Morgan and others, formed Anglo American. While everybody else swarmed to the Central Rand, Oppenheimer tried his luck in the Far East Rand and struck it rich, did it again 100 miles away where nobody thought there was any gold...
...print that letter, I urge you to revise your sense of humor in fairness to American boyhood within your precincts." Of all the letters to the CRIMSON, it was probably the most misled. Local boyhood had no trouble with the CRIMSON's humor. Other people, aided and abetted by eager copy editors and an ambitious wire service, had plenty of trouble indeed...
...British liberals. Amiel was more "neutral" than Attlee's quotation indicated. Elsewhere in his Journal Amiel had this to say about Americans: "They must win gold, predominance, power; crush rivals, subdue nature. They have their heart set on the means and never...think of the end...They are eager, restless, positive, because they are superficial. To what end all this stir, noise, greed, struggle...