Word: enthusiasm
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Last week the plump sausage-shaped area defended by Abd-el-Krim was severely French-fried on its convex southern exposure. Early in the week French confidence and enthusiasm, in both Paris and Morocco, reached extraordinary heights...
Thus far the coming of fall has meant only a mild yet comfortable situation of uncertainty. Business prospects appear sound and healthy, but sufficiently stabilized to obviate much speculative enthusiasm. The real difficulty, so far as domestic business is concerned, is to find an important weak spot. Even Congress-long the scapegoat of business ills-is now persuaded of the political value of a constructive rather than a destructive attitude toward economic questions. If anything, tax reductions during the coming year should make prospective legislation attractive to business...
...beginning of his Freshman year every college student, if he be of the true breeds, burns with enthusiasm and determination to accomplish great things. He is entering upon the last stage of his preparation to begin life on his own account. His plans are vague, but full of hope. The present is his immediate jewel. Four golden years confront him--years embellished in his imagination with the gilt and tinsel trappings gleaned from books on college life. And out of the brightness of the vision emerges a youth in cap and gown, a hale of glory about his head...
Evans of the U. S. A. Delegate E. J. Evans, of the American Federation of Trade Unions, spoke of cooperative measures in the U. S. between labor and employees. He was received without enthusiasm. His hearers brightened when he described the U. S. Super-Electric-Power-Movement as on the point of becoming the world's greatest monopoly...
With the General near, the Reichswehr goose-stepped, saluted, and were proudly inspected amid a furor of monarchist enthusiasm. Alas, as night fell and the General departed, the peasants of the region (Polish sympathizers) would offer the resplendent Reichswehr only pigpens as billets, withstood weary soldiers with pitchforks. Enraged, the authorities arrested hundreds of peasants and temporarily confiscated their property for military purposes...