Word: avidity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...famed glass-bottomed boats, through which avid-eyed tourists once stared back at opal-eyed bass, were tied up at the docks. The $2,000,000, twelve-story casino, on whose Moorish-Spanish exterior thousands of weekenders penciled their names, was a part time classroom; the expensive St. Catherine Hotel was a training headquarters and barracks; the Wrigley-built Hotel Atwater was a school and dormitory for marine stewards, cooks and bakers...
...young Cripps was an avid horseman and hunter, but his main interests were scientific. At 17 he built and flew a glider. At 18 he received the rare honor of working in the laboratory of the great chemist Sir William Ramsay. At 22 he read a science paper before the Royal Society (title: The Critical Constants and Orthobaric Densities of Xenon). Soon after the outbreak of World War I, young Cripps was recalled from driving a truck in France, rose to be assistant superintendent of "the largest explosives factory in the British Empire...
Headquarters Bloke. For 26 of his 52 years shrewd Sir Arthur Tedder has been in aviation. Before he joined the infant Royal Flying Corps in 1916, he had just been an English gentleman, a graduate of Cambridge's Magdalene College (where he became an avid reader of Shakespeare), a rugby player, a colonial servant of the Empire stationed at Fiji, and a soldier in the Dorsetshire Regiment. But military aviation seized his intense mind and has occupied it ever since...
...recent months there has been a rapid rise in the number of cases where children are being left to care for themselves while the mother is out working in an avid grab for the big "defense" dollar. (There are an estimated 1,500 in Kansas City alone.) If this practice is allowed to continue, our already overburdened Government will find another real job has fallen to its lot-the operation of nursery schools; a great expense with questionable results...
...wrote an avid amateur jazz musician. Paul Smith, in a Manhattan jazz concert program note a month ago. Last week Manhattanites had their fourth chance of the season to hear jazz-authentic, impromptu jazz-in the plush seats of Town Hall...