Word: ardently
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hepburn is the wife of a Hartford physician, the mother of famed Actress Katharine Hepburn, the cousin of Alanson Bigelow Houghton. An ardent worker for Causes, she once picketed the White House for suffrage. Following the well-tried formula of the past three years, Birth Controller Hepburn induced a Congressman, this time old (72) Representative Walter Marcus Pierce of Oregon, to introduce a bill exempting the medical profession from the Federal ban on the shipment of contraceptive information and material. Four times before in the last ten years had a House Committee heard arguments on similar legislation and four times...
...Gannett papers supported Herbert Hoover in 1932 and are still dry enough to refuse all liquor advertising, but since the first indications of a managed currency Publisher Gannett has been an ardent New Dealer. Secretary Morgenthau is one of his friends. So is Professor George Frederick ("Rubber Dollar") Warren of Cornell, whose views the Agriculturist has long reflected. Publisher Gannett saw a chance not only to oblige his friend and neighbor, but also to turn a pretty profit if the New Deal works out as he hopes...
...project for constructing a through waterway from the St. Lawrence River to the Great Lakes has had a curious history. One of its most ardent sponsors was William Hale Thompson, the former mayor of Chicago, who embroidered it to include the Mississippi River and make Dubuque and St. Louis great international ports. So many arguments have been put forward on both sides that the fundamental problem has been very effectively obscured; the winter closing of the St. Lawrence and the fact that the taxation might not fall primarily upon the beneficiaries are balanced against the export stimulation which cheap transportation...
...pass through the portals of the Harvard Law School. His ideas are notoriously liberal, his stimulating quality as a teacher in a small group unrivalled. He knows an extraordinary number of his students by their first names and in turn is known as "Felix" to his group of ardent disciples. With many of his former students he keeps in touch after graduation by means of a voluminous correspondence and due to his wide connections and reputation, he annually places many men in positions with private firms or with the government...
...later date of 1620 when into Virginia were brought those famous ninety maids who were to make the plantation "grow in generations and not to be pieced out without", the tale of heroism, progress and emancipation of womanhood is one which cannot fail to interest even the most ardent anti-suffragist...