Word: avidity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long and lovingly around the polished fruits of Britain's gayer days. All of the exhibits were made prior to 1830 (the official criterion of antiques), and most were British-made, although there were also spoils of the age when Britons were the world's wealthiest, most avid and widely traveled souvenir-hunters...
...Under the code of Soviet censorship a foreign correspondent is not supposed to write anything that has not already appeared in Russian newspapers or periodicals. This state of affairs, and the scarcity of normal news sources, forces him to become an avid reader of Soviet news. For anyone brought up on the traditional, all-inclusive output of the American press, however, the Soviet press's ideological approach to the news takes considerable getting used to. Their press is not a people's press, although it claims to be. It is a party press. The Communist Party owns...
Biggest howls came from the four networks, whose bills will be doubled (from $2,700 to $5,400 monthly). The Statistician had a ready answer: the networks, with an avid interest in every Hooperating, ought to pay more than the advertising agencies, with an interest in only...
Classrooms may be one place to obtain a liberal education but avid CRIMSON readers considerably augment this every day scanning the classified columns of Cambridge's only breakfast daily...
Almost unnoticed amid the local mayoralty scandal and a series of felonies juicy enough to please the most avid tabloid devotee, a group of national leaders in higher education last week chose Boston for their annual meeting. For three days, the Association of American Colleges met at the Statler, and in the course of its deliberations neatly side stopped the most ubiquitous and difficult of all pedagogical problems--money. The nettlesome issue of Federal subsidies for higher education stood high on the agenda, and one of the keynote speeches featured Dr. Carmichael of Tufts in a fervent plea for Federal...