Word: avidity
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...April 1928, the German plane Bremen made the first non-stop westbound flight across the Atlantic, was forced down on remote Greenly Island at the mouth of the frozen St. Lawrence River. Avid for news, the New York World sent Flyers Floyd Bennett, who was half-sick, and Bernt Balchen flying to Greenly Island. They landed at Lake Ste. Agnes near Murray Bay, where Bennett could go no farther. A plane returned him to a hospital in Quebec where he developed a fulminating case of pneumonia. Pneumonia serum available at the Rockefeller Institute in Manhattan might save Floyd Bennett...
...John Nields helped snuff out the Louisiana Lottery, whose printing offices were in Wilmington. He raided the lottery office, destroyed, among other things, complete samples of every kind of lottery ticket sold at that time in the U. S. and England. Because he is a devoted antiquarian, and avid student of Americana, this act of destruction must have been one of life's hardest tasks for John Nields. He left a lucrative law practice when President Hoover raised him to the Federal bench in 1930. But despite his politics and heritage, neither side of the Weirton case doubted...
...Since a large college realized how much he knew about private undergraduate life, it appointed him to its disciplinary board." He assured the CRIMSON that the college was not Harvard, thus safely dissipating the reporter's avid curiosity...
Following inorganic chemistry and usually followed by physical chemistry, Chem. 2a is an oasis in the somewhat avid desert of chemistry
...Still avid for publicity, naprapaths proceeded to the Century of Progress for Sally Rand, fan dancer. Giving her no time to doff her flat white hat, Naprapath Smith had her shrug off the top of her dress. He found she wore no slip, no brassiere. In search for "ligatights" he applied a gadget called a "multitherm" to her back, found none...