Word: avidity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seldom that an Englishman even a naturalized Englishman, deigns to compliment Americans, especially on intellectual matters, that Michael Arlen's announcement to the effect that Americans are more avid readers than the English is almost in the nature of a departure from national policy. The novelist goes further and implies that the American reading public mingles with its intellectualism an element of philanthropy, in that its cultural activities serve to prevent the death from malnutrition of many British litterateurs...
...have never before felt impelled to write a letter to TIME on any subject during the six years I have been a regular subscriber and an avid reader of your magazine. I would, however, like to see more letters and articles on the subject of paying the Adjusted Service Certificates to veterans in the near future (TIME...
...finest things he has done, was made possible by the removal of some scaffolding from the dining hall of Pomona College, 40 mi. south of Los Angeles. Last winter, head of Pomona's art department was Professor Jose Pijoan, authority on Latin American art, avid Orozcoan. So long, so vigorously did he preach Orozco to the sons and daughters of Pomona that on their own initiative they invited Orozco to come west, decorate their dining hall. "We have no money," said Prof. Pijoan when Orozco arrived, "at present only $500." Artist Orozco glowered through his glasses. "Never mind about...
...very closely linked with Eastern thought, occult and mystical. She has proclaimed her famed, sloe-eyed Hindu protege, Krishnamurti, to be the vehicle of the World Teacher (i.e. the divine spirit at times appropriates his physical organism, speaks through him as it spoke through Jesus, Mohammed, etc.). Once an avid tennis-player and tea-drinker at Oxford and on the Riviera, he arrived last week in Krotona to begin new vigils and meditations. The Besant Society believes that children born on the Pacific Coast, Canada and Australia (or other fresh, unexhausted lands) are creatures of a new, sixth race, capable...