Word: avidity
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...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...
...chief non-academic activity is being chairman of the board of the Builders Iron Foundry in Providence, a factory turning out measuring and mixing devices. He also is an avid sailor, and he and Mrs. Chafee like nothing better than cruising around the Cape...
Ecker brought back from his summer tour a report of avid interest in what he had to say about the practices and philosophy of newsgathering at every campus he visited. Questions were searching and analytical, and the students seemed to be seeking practical answers to what is new in journalism and why it is better or worse than what it has replaced. They weren't interested in drafting lofty codes of a New Journalism...
...former classmate of Evans, I consider him an intellectual casualty. He was an avid worker in the recent election campaign of Senator Butler of Maryland, and thoroughly believed the speeches made-a thing no thinking person does of any campaign speech...