Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from their other interests. The apotheosis of the game lies only with the public There is no justifiable reason why the players should be deprived of the good effects of participation in football just as it stands today or why the undergraduate bodies of the colleges should lose their enthusiasm simply because the great American people over-emphasize the annual competition. Toreadors have to eater to the Spanish public; football players don't in America. Here the public goes wild for a brief period, but it is all forgotten before the hockey season is under way. If the players have...
...Paris, journalistic sarcasm was drowned in archeologists' enthusiasm when Digger de Prorok laid his finds before the government. Professor Stephane Gsell of the College of France demonstrated before the Institute of France that Tin Hinan, whose tomb and skeleton he was inclined to believe had been found, could not have lived earlier than 1,000 B. C.; probably about 900 B. C. Others aimed their guesses at her actual date between those two centuries...
...western tour which was the first in the history of the Hasty Pudding Show proved to be an unqualified success. The actors played to large audiences in Buffalo, Cleveland, Detroit, and Pittsburgh and were everywhere received with great enthusiasm...
...become imbued with the spirit of the college, which is as real and potent as it is indefinable. The achievement of one who wins a "double first" in the university examinations is a triumph shared by the whole college with as much enthusiasm as that of the athlete who wins the "blue". There prevails also a generous appreciation of any degree of merit manifested by a member of the college, and an equally wholesome willingness to make allowances for aberrant peculiarities, provided these do not conflict too sharply with...
...such a finished singer, a protege of Mr. Isadore Braggiotti, there was no trace of diffident restraint, and by the time that M. Marcoux had concluded the second number of the next group he revealed the richness and subtle nuances of his unusual voice and stirred more than polite enthusiasm...