Word: ardent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would that our Divine Saviour, listening to our ardent prayers, should design to recall all sinners to the unity of the Church...
Included in the list of those attending the dinner will be members of the University and Freshman teams, and numerous Harvard men who played polo as undergraduates. Another player who is expected to be present at the dinner is Governor W. C. Forbes '92, an ardent supporter of polo, who has assisted the University polo teams in securing a place for practice. G. S. Mandell '89 and Devereux Milburn, who are prominent in international polo, are to be present...
...credulity and belief have their limitations and even the imagination talks when asked to solve the enigmatical causa causans of the enforcement of compulsory golf at Annapolis. It is not unassuming to picture natty mid-shipment pursuing the elusive golf pellet over the briny billows of the deep. No ardent enthusiast of the green has falled, at some moment or other, to meditate upon the possibility of a rolling sea suddenly solidified, but the very idea of battleships being equipped with golf courses, midshipmen adding knickerbockers to their accouterment, and the employment of Marines as caddies would have been considered...
Married. Powers Hapgood, of Indianapolis, ardent supporter of Sacco and Vanzetti, nephew of Socialist Norman Hapgood; to Miss Mary Donovan, of Boston. Secretary of the Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee; in Manhattan...
Evangelist Moody was born in 1837, became a shoe-seller, then an ardent saver of .souls. He hammered on the word of God as if it had been a heel-peg, with, determination, with insistence, with enormous vigor, but without superfluous gesticulation. Said D. L. Moody, early in his career: "... I wouldn't let a day pass without speaking to some one about their soul's salvation . . . There will be 365 in a year that shall hear the gospel from my lips." With Ira David Sankey, who sang hymns, he toured the U. S. and England, giving...