Word: avidity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gehrmann and Wilt consequently are a promoter's dream. They always run a good mile race, and the public loves it. Last Saturday, the 17th installment of their series of mile races took place in the Boston Garden to the delight of 13,000 avid track fans. The race went perfectly according to script. Wilt let one of the lesser known runners set the pace, moved out in front after the quarter mark, and then tried to run away from Gehrmann. He failed just as he had failed the night before in Philadelphia, and 15 out of 16 times during...
Whenever some special creative ability is vital to Russia, as in the fields of science and war, it is imported from the West. The Soviet Union is an avid subscriber to technical magazines the world over. Of the four Russian types of car, two are Packards. The atom bomb and the MIG fighter came from the West-if only from Eastern Germany...
Coach Jaakko Mikkola was not happy over the meet. He was, however, inclined to dismiss most of the trouble as more first meet jitters. Nevertheless, it wasn't easy to dismiss lightly several glaring weaknesses that made even the most avid Crimson track fan hold a rein on his enthusiasm...
...cheap thermometers were discovered on the Harvard scene yesterday. Avid readers of the 160th annual "Old Farmer's Almanac" found that a University research fellow claimed that "your feet may be your best thermometer." The edition was just published...
...Committee to Curb Communism went about its job with an equally avid sense of the urgent. The committeemen burrowed into old FBI files, heard testimony, drew up organizational charts, and delved into the history of the Communist Party. Their 84-page report submitted March 29, 1951 pointed out that Boston was the Headquarters of all subversive activities in "District 1"--Maine, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island...