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Word: enthusiasm (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Though such incidents certify that a Dry World is by no means yet in prospect, prohibitionists greeted with enthusiasm the news that the U. S. Congress plans to appropriate some $37,000,000 to continue enforcement of prohibition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Dry World? | 12/17/1928 | See Source »

Those who have been thus innocently deluded by the wiles of sport correspondents now herald with enthusiasm the opening of the hockey season tonight. The publication of starting lineups has already caused a stir; last minute changes may yet augment the intensity of the situation, Because they look for competent criticism of the very subjects which are on the tips of their tongues, athletic enthusiasts again find in the newspapers renewed satisfaction. Although the headlines are not as incongruously conspicuous as those of three weeks ago the articles are none the less convincing in the dearth of copy sextet supplants...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DEPLETED COLUMNS | 12/12/1928 | See Source »

With authentic enthusiasm Counselor Cahill writes: "France has become the greatest iron ore country in Europe; she has acquired potash concessions far in excess of her consumption; compared with 1923, she has increased her coal output by one-sixth, doubled her coke output and more than trebled her electrical capacity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Incalculable. . . Prosperity | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

...attendance at rehearsals is notorious. Undeniably the Plerian Sodality has suffered from the aversion that the monotony of unvariated repetition must rouse even in the musician most given to his art, and all the more powerful in the amateur environment of a college orchestra. But the possibility of reviving enthusiasm by appeal to the desire for novelty in music has been rather completely neglected at Harvard until the regime of Mr. Slonimsky. Apparently the example of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, with its successful treatment of new selections has inspired the conductor of the Pierian to attempt a similar step...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JONNY STRIKES UP | 12/7/1928 | See Source »

...House itself, there are, not classes, but a guild of young boys whose ancestors may have been famed violin makers or stone cutters of Italy, or sculptors whose talents have descended to a generation unrealized were it not for Greenwich House and Victor Salvatore, who lends his time and enthusiasm and wise counsel to the development of "The Arts of the Building Trade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Greenwich Woodcarvers | 12/3/1928 | See Source »

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