Word: ardent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...late Duke, in glaring contrast to other members of the Royal Family, was an ardent Fascist, orations in his praise came easy. Next week the Chamber will debate, will later approve the Fascist Budget. Next month Italy's equally well-trained Senate will meet, obey...
...method to be used when the world's oil resources are exhausted. Last year he developed a process for making sugar from wood (TIME, Feb. 10, 1930). He believes production of food from wood far from impossible and will use his prize money to carry on his experiments. Ardent experimenter, he has spent large sums of his own money, raised other large sums, to carry on his work. Bergius beliefs: "Progress is a matter of meeting exigencies. . . . Comfort is the basis of civilization...
...boots. It has many another unique characteristic: Its members are all exiled from Soviet Russia (as men-without-a-country they travel on "Nansen" passports devised by the late Norwegian Explorer-Statesman Fridtjof Nansen, issued by the League of Nations) yet their organization would be sanctioned by the most ardent Communist. It is run on a strictly co-operative basis. Conductor Serge Jaroff takes no more of the profits than the least important of the choristers. But like any military commander he has complete command. No singer may be delinquent about rehearsals. Because of tardiness last year...
Died. Ernest R. Ackerman, 68, U. S. (Republican) Representative since 1919 of the 5th New Jersey District, onetime president of the New Jersey State Senate, member of the House Appropriations Committee; of heart disease; in Plainfield, N. J. An ardent philatelist, he owned $1,000,000 worth of postage stamps, had swapped with King George V and King Victor Emmanuel...
...bullet passer and gigantic ball carrier of the Longhorn aggregation whom 2000 Texas supporters expect to give Harvard considerable trouble as he makes gaps in the Crimson line. When you watch this fighting player, reminiscent of another Coy, you will follow him along with a cheering section of ardent Texans...