Word: ardently
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clerk in his father's general store in the Quebec village of Compton (pop. 1,000). Those were the days when Sir Wilfrid Laurier was leader of the Liberal Party. Young Louis lent an ear to all the hot & heavy political talk around the cracker barrel, and was an ardent Laurier Liberal from the start...
...ardent worker on numerous Communist front organizations, he made his latest major contribution to the cause by serving as chairman of the pro-Communist Cultural and Scientific Conference for World Peace in New York's Waldorf-Astoria last March (TIME, April...
...Wells Fargo contains only a few nuggets like the story of Black Bart. It concerns itself chiefly with lavishing praise on Wells Fargo executives and listing company assets and dividends through the years. Most readers had better look elsewhere for the sound & fury of early California days ; but ardent collectors of Americana will want to sift its dry-as-dust style for new facts about the old West...
Trouillas is an untidy, ramshackle village of 1,100 souls in southern France, not far from the Spanish border. Last week the name of Trouillas was heard round the world. By unanimous vote, the town council passed this resolution: "Considering its ardent desire for peace, in the name of the population of Trouillas, the council decides in unanimity to adhere to the world citizens' pact and to the movement created for a universal federation of peoples for the fight against war. We declare the commune of Trouillas world territory...
Stake in the Future. Kilometer 47's most ardent booster, Cornell-trained Dr. Alvaro Fagundes, director of Brazil's agricultural research, is well aware that the school's policy of refusing to compromise its high standards has some drawbacks. The cost of operation is high, entrance examinations extremely stiff, the student body relatively small. But Fagundes also knows that, in any case, Kilometer 47 can not do the job alone. A basic problem for the government is to reverse the drift of the population toward the industrial coast. And even when the hinterlands are manned and producing...