Word: avidity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ogle children, except for 18-year-old Eric, who is now a Navy communications technician in North Africa, and Sandra, 20, who will continue nurse's training in Denver, were delighted about the move to Canada. All avid campers and fishermen, they looked forward to new adventures in rich and rugged western Canada. Soon after he heard about the transfer, son Kelly, 7, sighed: "I'm waiting about as fast...
...fourth-through-eighth-graders in New Jersey's Caldwell Township school, half are now working for various L.C.A. merit buttons. Some members have become such avid readers that one mother complained: "I can't get my children to bed any more. They want to sit up and read...
Although Harvard went down to defeat today, the avid Crimson fan can seek solace in the pages of history...
...story begins back in 1948 when Batteau and Warren Seaman, now Assistant Director of the Harvard Computation Lab, used to spend their spare time poring over reams of science fiction. The two, along with a few other avid fans, would speculate on the feasibility of such fanciful things as computing machines, automatic "brains," space rockets, and other amusing "toys." Campbell often joined in the "bull sessions," as Batteau calls them...
...current issue of Religion in Life, David G. Moses, Christian principal of Hislop College at Nagpur and a practiced interpreter between East and West, credits the British with opening "the whole wealth of Western inductive science and knowledge of Western political institutions to the wondering gaze and avid hunger of the Indian student." At the same time, the Protestant missionaries attacked Hinduism's most flagrant corruptions-caste system and child marriage, enforced widowhood, suttee (a widow's suicide on the funeral pyre of her husband) and infanticide...