Word: ardor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senior Class. Then Clifford inducted President Eliot into the office, and the new President replied, I will take up this weighty charge with a deep sense of insufficiency, but yet with youthful hope, and a good courage. High examples will lighten the way. The University is strong in the ardor and self-sacrifices of its teachers, in the vigor and wisdom of the Corporation and Overseers, and in the public spirit of the community. Above all, I devote myself to the sacred work, in the firm faith that the God of the fathers will also be with the children...
...Only General Araki can ride the tiger," was a picturesque excuse passed around among Japanese politicians when they found themselves forced to make him War Minister with the powers of a quasi-Dictator (TIME, April 4. 1932). "The tiger" was Japan's Army &: Navy, then rampant with the ardor of fire-eating younger officers "to wage a purifying struggle [war] for the Divine Emperor." Last week, in view of the spectacular success in Japanese eyes of General Araki's two year ride on the tiger, the entire Far East was profoundly jolted by abrupt news that General Araki...
...print really important news until someone has shown them that it is important and our minds are already prepared for the impact. The American breed of journalism is the tamest in the world, for it never carries on the exciting warfare of principle, it is never inflamed by the ardor of a great cause. Mr. G. K. Chesterton points out that large playing blocks are devised not to startle children, but to put them at their ease; headlines modelled in their likeness do not quicken mental inertia, but play upon it in vast and obvious fashion. By all means...
...issue of economic nationalism. The dramatic announcement by Norman Davis and Secretary Hull of the end of American isolation coupled with President Roosevelt's early enthusiasm for tariff reduction, seemed to betoken a return to a policy of low tariffs and Wilsonian internationalism. But if the Administration's ardor for the removal of trade barriers ever burned very strong, it has apparently cooled with a growing sentiment that the New Deal can best be achieved within a closed economic structure...
...ardor to build up one of the Wagnerian crescendos Conductor Stokowski twisted a dial off his control desk. In a speech after the demonstration he prophesied a day when "there will be music in small-town auditoriums as splendid as that which is now played by fine symphony orchestras in large cities. ... I can imagine spacious gardens of pleasure in which happy idlers, after a brief day's work, wander amid the trees while they listen to the strains of great music played in some distant music tower...