Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...whose worst enemies sarcastically admit that he has become almost a god on earth. A cloud of escorting airplanes flew overhead, and the train rumbled on. Crowds cheered as it entered the great Leipsic station. Wearily Paul von Hindenburg descended and passed with tired majesty through a mob whose enthusiasm would barely let him pass...
With hardy enthusiasm the National Food Products Corporation pushed its propaganda a month ago (TIME, Feb. 15). It had incorporated itself in Maryland for a potential value of $2,000,000. It was to hold securities in food producing and distributing companies, to purchase and sell securities and to underwrite securities of companies in which it would hold an interest. Its ramifications would be wide, its profits alluring. Three hundred seventy thousand shares at $45 were to be offered at once, for payment the middle of February...
Then on Feb. 13, before stock payments, the U. S. district attorney at Manhattan doused that hardy enthusiasm, filed suit in Federal Court there to restrain promotion of the food products concern as a potential violator of the Clayton anti-trust act. The food corporation lawyers laughed, called the suit "a joke." In "about ten minutes" an answer could be prepared, would be filed the next day. None was. Last week lawyers came into court and abjectly consented to the modification of the corporation's intents...
...support his team has been put on a money premium, and that his fair alma mater has taken to playing favorites. This is especially true of the younger alumni to whom the dollar seems more than a curiously designed symbol. And unfortunately so, for theirs is the greatest enthusiasm, and theirs will be the greatest disappointment. And it is not to be forgotten that in their hands lies the future support of our Universities. W.B. Darling...
...same thing as ethics or morals, can further the idealistic element in the law. The modern church, though at present it may not have the full influence it should on the Principles and ideals of politics and law, could if it were moved by a deep and sincere religious enthusiasm, have the same effect in the developments of the future, that it had during the Reformation and the Puritanical movement. Dean Pound continued by stating that no absolute unity in Religion was necessary to give it its proper influence in other fields. During the Reformation there was a great diversity...