Word: ardent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Significance. Representative Vare is the boss of Philadelphia politics. Without his great majority in his own city he could not have won. As it was, he did not have a majority of the 1,400,000 votes cast. If Mr. Pinchot, the ardent Dry, had not decided to enter the field as a third, it is most unlikely that Vare would have won. So, fundamentally, it was the act of a Dry which nominated...
...know very much of the conditions there. What I did learn of the disturbances in Warsaw saddened me and made me worse. I am, in consequence of my illness, not fully acquainted with the facts. I deeply deplore the cruel and stupid bloodshed. It is my hope and ardent prayer that what may still happen will be for the good of my country and for peace. That...
...mysterious round building at Paalmul even if that was an observatory, for in that case it was an observatory manned by priests. It is difficult to name another race in which the religious emotion so dominated the high artistic expression of a whole people or worked to produce so ardent a search for the secrets of the universe...
...Princeton University, "Dick" Cleveland figured as campus critic, as reformer. Ardent Wilson Democrat, he followed in his hero's footsteps by attacking the upperclass-men's club system. He associated himself with the so-called "great unwashed" (the socially unassimilated element of the student body) and refused the many club invitations that were addressed to him by virtue of his personality, attainments and appearance, which was quite the reverse of "unwashed," he being a tall blond shot-putter cast in a noble mold. After the failure of his "revolution" he contented himself with a running public commentary on life...
...pressure 840 Kilo bars, the temperature 1060, or there had been a fall of 30 Kilograds," certainly conveys very little to the average reader unless he thinks rather intensely and makes his conversions himself before he proceeds to the next sentence. Yet professor McAdie is well-known as an ardent advocate of these new units, has fought a hard battle for their adoption, and naturally does not want to let any opportunity slip by without having another shot at his target...