Word: ardente
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...That the ardent book-worm who mistakes the pits for the subterranean halls of Widener may not be drowned by the accumulated rains of Cambridge, the conduit is drained into a pit back of the New Lecture Hall. Here also is the fork in the tunnel which leads to the Peabody Museum. Traces of all this renovation may be found in sporadic puffs of steam near Memorial Hall and in increased comfort in the altered buildings...
...further remarked that many Communists were ardent admirers of the writings of Henry Ford and Upton Sinclair...
This Association is composed of representatives of some 350 cities in the U. S., Canada and New Zealand which are run by city managers. Dr. Hatton, an ardent promoter of the city manager movement, conceived the idea, last year, "that city managers generally are so engrossed in their own problems that they have little time to work out solutions of new problems of administration." Dr. Hatton went to Rochester, N. Y. and told his idea to George Eastman, rich and earnest friend of better city government...
...only they could dispute with William T. Tilden Jr., Germantown, Pa., and Francis Hunter, New Rochelle, N. Y., sly shotmakers, the honor of playing doubles for the U. S. against France in the approaching Davis Cup matches. They won early matches easily against unknowns, improving with practice. Their first ardent opposition came in the semi-finals against young George M. Lott Jr., Chicago; and young John Doeg, Santa Monica, Cal. The young men, prospective champions sages say, showed fight, forced the older men desperately, lost...
...suicide was to let him believe her a prostitute; 2) the suppressed tragedy of a wealthy bourgeois whose sufferings from gallstones was eclipsed by circumstantial evidence that his young daughter was promiscuous; 3) the tragedy of sex perversion in a brilliant professor, as climaxed and discovered by his most ardent disciple...