Word: ardently
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sports which most foreigners identify with Mexico are second-rate bullfighting and revolutions. This is a gross injustice. Proud, excitable and much less torpid than they are reputed to be. Mexicans are ardent sportsmen, although they have invented no game of their own. Mexican boxing matches draw big crowds. Pelota (jai alai) gave rise to the game of fronton tennis, played with rackets instead of cestas. Yale's football coach, Reginald Root, got his experience coaching the first Mexico City University team which was good enough last year to hold Louisiana to 30 points. Mexican soccer and basketball teams...
Answer 4. Devaluation of the dollar, which the President was all against three weeks ago, he is now willing to consider- partly to please the ardent inflation block developing in Congress, and more important, to solve the problems of international exchange. But having cut the gold content of the dollar to 80? who can be sure that he will not cut it again to 60?. So the question remains...
...President Roosevelt, ardent philatelist, approved designs of two stamps to commemorate Chicago's Century of Progress...
Died, Alphonso David Rockwell, 92, pioneer electrotherapeutist, ardent opponent of capital punishment, co-developer (with two other physicians and Thomas Alva Edison) of the electric chair; of old age; in Flushing, L. I. Dr. Rockwell & colleagues electrocuted 19 animals before their device was tried out, amid nation-wide protest; on one William Kemmler, murderer, at Auburn...
...became an ardent backer of Howard Scott and Technocracy, which made a thousand headlines. His name also helped Architect Buckminster Fuller publicize the visionary "dymaxion" house...