Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...conspicuous place, what is known as 'concert jazz' music. Herein, at present, lie great possibilities of American contribution to musical art. Realizing these possibilities, Victor, in conformity with its policy of promoting every worthy musical activity, has encouraged American composers in this idiom with the same enthusiasm that it devotes to the promotion of the classical forms of music...
...much larger and stronger than the women of my generation. My own daughter, who is 14 years old, will be taller than either her father or myself, and I feel certain that this is due to her enthusiastic entrance into all sports. In Japan the girls are showing enthusiasm for tennis, basketball, swimming and pole vaulting. Perhaps the most remarkable spectacle of these days is to see a party of Japanese girls climbing Mount Fiji. Ten or fifteen years ago this was unheard...
...disturbed and even terrified did Venezuelans become at the dangerous caprices of President Castro, that they welcomed with frenzied enthusiasm a coup d'etat by the then Vice President, General Juan Vicente Gomez. Ever since that day -Dec. 19, 1908-General Gomez has been perfecting his Dictatorship and directing what he calls "Venezuela's era of national rehabilitation." Though his methods have been harsh, they have seemed justified by the widespread Venezuelan prosperity directly attributable to President Gomez's driving, kinetic leadership. Dictator Castro had utterly scared off all foreign investors. But under Dictator Gomez investments exceeding...
...demonstration made in various places last week over the first publication of a book, a magazine and a newspaper* printed on paper made from corn stalks was rather perfervid. Yet enthusiasm was warranted. One to two tons of corn stover (stalks, leaves, husks) grow to an acre. Only a small percentage is good for silage. The rest rots, making a national waste of 100 to 150 million tons of good vegetable matter a year...
Five engines and a small crowd of 200 persons gathered within a short time. Mocking cries of "Fire" added to the ire of the fire company until threats of the hose dampened the enthusiasm of those looking on from the nearby windows...