Word: ardently
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...find jobs for home-coming soldiers. In 1921 he was made a member of President Harding's Conference on Unemployment headed by Secretary of Commerce Hoover. Married in 1916 to Miss Helen Morgan Hamilton, he is a director of Bankers' Trust Co. of New York, an ardent tennis player, an associate of John Davison Rockefeller Jr. in philanthropy...
...indictment on over emphasis was launched, this time by Coach Roper of Princeton. He said the usual things which need not be repeated, but his voice lends new weight to an old argument. Famed in the past for his successful teams he usually thought of as an ardent exponent of modern football...
...ardent Sovialist: a talented musician anda owrld renowned mathematician the professor has earned a reputation as a free-thinker. He uses a spelling system of his own invention and often entertains his lecture audiences by performing on a five stringed cello which he developed himself...
...feet, the blat of tubas, the rattle of canes (in Heu of musketry) and the clash of an indescribable array of colors. Her citizenry has the opportunity of feasting its eyes upon an unparalleled collection of 100 per cent Americans and hats. Admittedly not as many of these ardent militarists have witnessed the firing of a rifle with intent to kill as one might at first be led to suppose, but the spirit of Tom Sawyer seems to have been sufficiently revived so that tales of heroism are not lacking. What chance has the collegiate youth against such splendor? Obviously...
...member of the Porcellian Club and manager of the football team. During this period the nickname "Mike" was applied to him for some reason now forgotten. Later, his various directorates and the importance of his activities in law and the railroad business did not interfere with his more ardent interests. He became famous as one of the best auction-bridge players in the world, gave his name to a convention of bidding (TIME, Sept. 30), and is largely responsible for the present vogue of contract bridge. When automobiling was a sport he had the fastest car in Newport; when planes...