Word: ardently
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Among President Hutchins' most ardent supporters is the University's gangling, witty literary handyman, Milton Mayer. Mayer is a onetime Chicago news and publicity man, studied under Hutchins at the University, later helped him teach his famed course on the 100 Best Books. Wrote Mayer in Wisconsin's weekly Progressive...
...time had first-rank opposition, a man who would get the labor vote, but not be tied to it. Fiftyish, iron-grey Judge Jesse Martin Combs, a vigorous jurist, has never been defeated; he is a States' rights critic of Franklin Roosevelt's domestic program but an ardent supporter of the President's foreign policy...
...appropriation and the fifth extension of its life expire in January. Though it has seven other members, its moving spirit has always been the strident demagogue from Texas. Last week New Jersey's chunky, ruddy J. Parnell Thomas, the ranking Republican Dies Committeeman arid no more ardent a defender of minority rights than Dies himself, proposed that the committee become a permanent House institution. But there was grave doubt that anybody but Demagogue Dies could persuade reluctant fellow Congressmen to keep on financing investigations into the "unAmerican activities" of Walter Winchell...
Artist, poet, and teacher, he is today, as Peter Boolba, American citizen and ardent champion of democracy, a long way from the land of his origin and the city of his birth, Kiev. Born not so long ago, and yet long enough to have him prefer to withhold the date, Peter Boolba's scientific inclinations have enabled him to pursue the varied and kaleidoscopic career to which he lays claim. From the time he left the Alexander I Technical College in Russia, through his years with Bell Laboratories in New York and up to the time of his present position...
...aforementioned quotes were Boolba the cynic. His true love for humanity is evidenced by the fact that up until six months ago he was an ardent vegetarian because he couldn't bear to think of eating an animal that had been killed so that he could have his fill. Something must have happened six months ago, for today he say: "Now I feel that I could eat a human being... that is, if he were well prepared...