Word: ardently
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week North Carolina Staters decided to try a different system. An ardent alumnus named D. W. ("Dutch") Seifert and 17 other alumni (including the college dean, J. W. Harrelson) organized a Wolfpack Club. Its purpose: to hire athletes for the college. Money for athletic "scholarships" will be raised among North Carolina State's 20,000 alumni. Wolfpack Leader Dutch Seifert gave tongue...
Pollak, swimming editor of the CRIMSON for three winters, has been an ardent tank fan for years, and Harvard's Coach Ulen counts him among his close friends. Pollak wanted to hare some small part in the setting of the new record so Ulen decided to let him call out the laps at the turus...
Sweden's and Norway's replies, said Tass last week, were "unsatisfactory." Norway replied that Russia's complaints were based on inaccurate information. Sweden was tougher: "The Swedish people cherish ardent sympathy for Finland. . . . In the opinion of the Swedish Government neither its position as regards the press nor its actions in any other demand provides the Soviet Union with a pretext for accusations against Sweden...
Country Life is a horsy magazine comprising all that is left of Polo, The Sportsman, Horse & Horseman. Its editor & publisher is an ardent turf lover named Peter Vischer. In this month's Country Life, Editor Vischer had a few paragraphs to say about "the custom becoming more and more prevalent among track operators of paying the 'expenses' of newspapermen doing the work their papers assign them to do, of putting them up cost-free at their clubhouses or elsewhere, even of putting them on the payroll...
Raymond Gram Swing is 52, a tall, stooped, tweedy, horn-rimmed man with unruly brown hair. The Gram came from his wife, Betty Gram, once a militant suffragette and still an ardent feminist. He pitched into U. S. journalism in 1906, at 19. In 1913 he became the Chicago Daily News's man in Berlin...