Word: ardent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Presumably informed that there was no danger, he landed, spoke first to theFilipinos, while troops held in check ardent Moro dagger experts; thento the Moros, while troops held in check ardent Filipino dagger-experts. General Leonard Wood, whose schedule is approximately one day ahead of the Colonel's, was informed of the disturbance, hastened back to Zamboanga, held a meeting where he presided as arbiter. Said he afterwards: "I am ashamed that the Christian Filipinos showed Mr. Thompson that they were unable to live amicably with the Moros. I regret to sav that discipline was maintained by the Mahometan...
...Ardent, august, the members of the British Association for the Advancement of Science continued their palaverings at Oxford (TIME, Aug. 16). They palavered about: Baldness. Since thyroidal secretions stimulate both brain and hair growth, "it is not far wrong to assume" that, loss of hair benefits the intellect. Famine. Sir Daniel Hall demonstrated the waste, in food-units, of lands planted with hops and grapes, but added: "A race that cuts out alcohol in order to multiply is the permanent slave type, destined to function like the worker bees." The burthen of his remarks was the old scare that...
...Nodded approval as the Ministry of Health suppressed the Municipal Guardians of West Ham, famed constituency of John Joseph ("Jumping Jack") Jones, Laborite M. P., raucous boor. The Guardians of West Ham, ardent Laborites, had been paying "unemployment doles" to able-bodied men on a scale higher than their wages when employed. As a result the community is reported in debt...
...news gatherers King Alfonso said: "I have been and am still an ardent partisan of the League of Nations. . . . But, if we do not obtain the definite satisfaction which is due to Spain [i.e., a permanent seat on the League Council (TIME, March 29 et seq. LEAGUE)], we could be induced not to have the same interest in the League as heretofore" (i.e., an intimation that Spain is not irrevocably resolved upon withdrawing from the League, but still hopes for a permanent seat...
...must be some mysterious attraction in Chicago to necessitate such a gesture. No, said the McCormicks, there was nothing mysterious at all; no illness, marriage, divorce, or other sensation. It was a private matter. Of course the newspapers found out in the end. They usually do. Mrs. Cyrus Jr.-ardent Christian Scientist-had wanted to reach Chicago for an international convention of Christian Scientists. No, objected Christian Scientists, that was not it. Mrs. Cyrus Jr. had wanted to, and did, attend the annual meeting of a body called the Bicknell Young* Students' Association. "Oh, well," thought the public? "What...