Word: ardor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have been patrolling his range. Nobody but Harry would have lasted very long under such a single-minded tartar as "Nosey" Durham, who was proud of having the best-patrolled district in the country. Even Durham's wife, though she had cause to complain of his lack of ardor, respected and feared his virility. But Harry had such a winning way with him that his boss never fired him permanently, and once when Harry threatened to quit, surprised him by begging him to stay. Durham got so fond of Harry that when Dot, a "dudine" from the East, invaded...
...haven't slept an hour since night before last," Senator Glass declared out of the corner of his mouth. But fatigue did not diminish the little Virginian's ardor of exposition. He admitted that there were sections of the bill that "shocked" him. Pointing to its anti-hoarding provision as "arbitrary," he said: "I don't know who there is with wit or wisdom enough to define hoarding...
...Boston Perkinses, she was graduated from Mount Holyoke College in 1902, went to Lake Forest, Ill. to teach. The writings of Jacob Riis (How the Other Half Lives') and Lincoln Steffens (The Shame of the Cities) fired her ardor for reform, sent her to Hull House for six months. At Columbia later she did post-graduate work...
...offensive to seize Jehol.* Meantime tramp, tramp, relentlessly down from Manchuria pressed Japanese soldiers numbering 60,000 at most. They were reinforced by 40,000 Manchurian (Chinese) mercenaries, but their weapons were those of the Machine Age. Tensely China, the world's most populous nation, quivered between ardor and despair...
...nations but one would be a long and bloody task. With national mentalities as they are, people would be quick to defend their governments crimes, and loath to punish the transgressions of others, so long as they themselves were not molested. Their governments would of course encourage their ardor with propaganda, and supply them their guns and graves. Any war of enforcement against a major power today would call for a mobilization of the other powers and enlistment and drafting of citizens. So long as this holds true, and everyone knows that it does, international policing will be an impossible...