Word: avidity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Since a large college realized how much he knew about private undergraduate life, it appointed him to its disciplinary board." He assured the CRIMSON that the college was not Harvard, thus safely dissipating the reporter's avid curiosity...
Following inorganic chemistry and usually followed by physical chemistry, Chem. 2a is an oasis in the somewhat avid desert of chemistry
...Still avid for publicity, naprapaths proceeded to the Century of Progress for Sally Rand, fan dancer. Giving her no time to doff her flat white hat, Naprapath Smith had her shrug off the top of her dress. He found she wore no slip, no brassiere. In search for "ligatights" he applied a gadget called a "multitherm" to her back, found none...
...GREATEST PAGES OF CHARLES DICKENS?Stephen Leacock?Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). Chronological anthology arranged by an avid Dickensian for other Dickensians...
...manner novel enough to make it attractive to the casual playgoer. In the familiar situation of a family with a tradition whose son falls for the peroxide rinse adventuress, we have a large assortment of old comic standbys, prominent among whom is the crusader for unrepressed sex, the avid reader of Havelock Ellis...