Word: ardor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Toward week's end the pace of metal speculation in both London and the U. S. slowed appreciably. Ominous reports that the British Government would step in, if speculators continued to boost the costs of rearmament, dampened London's ardor. But metals did not calm down until zinc had zoomed to the highest price in eleven years (7½ per lb.) and lead, in the heaviest trading in that heavy metal in the history of the New York Commodity Exchange, was whooped to 7¼? per lb., highest since...
...firemen, gleefully tearing down walls and ceiling, were packed into the tiny room from which the smoke poured. Meanwhile, co-operative Crimson stalwarts helped pull hoses up to the roof of the building. Their ardor was some-what dampened when boisterous fire-fighters above, testing a hose, directed the stream of water at the undergraduates...
...love of our Lord in the august sacrament of the altar and from more frequent communion with him there may come a daily increase of devotion to missions and enterprise for the promotion of missionary activity. For it is from that very source that light is given our minds, ardor to our souls and supernal fecundity to our labors and good works. . . . These, venerable brethren and beloved children, are the wishes, these the hopes which we, present among you not only in the person of our Legate, but also in a way by that paternal love which transcends and conquers...
...came still another explanation of the Coughlin conundrum in which everyone seemed to be contradicting everyone else as to just where the Detroit priest stood with Rome: "The bishop came and received from the Vatican the most precise and unmistakable instructions that cannot be misunderstood-namely, to moderate the ardor of an orator who should have refrained from attacks of a political character, especially personal, and also renounce the forming of political parties and confine himself to a precise illustration of the social doctrines of the church...
...recognized Russia, he simultaneously announced that his good friend, rich young "Bill" Bullitt, would go to Moscow as first U. S. Ambassador to the U. S. S. R. Recognition and appointment were a consummation for which Philadelphia's Bullitt had yearned and worked with increasing ardor ever since he went from the Peace Commission, supposedly on behalf of Lloyd George and Woodrow Wilson, to confer with Lenin...