Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Undoubtedly, one of the distinctive business developments of the past year has been the revival of interest and even enthusiasm in the railroad industry, after years of depression and doubt. Railroad securities have risen swiftly in price and have been eagerly purchased by the investing public, while new railroad financing has been accomplished with unexpected ease...
...many years this once famous dining hall has struggled against the encroachments of the many cafeterias and restaurants which now crowd Harvard Square. Last year, in a final effort to recoup its past popularity, steps were taken by the University authorities which it was hoped would restore former enthusiasm for the Memorial Hall "Commons". Questionnaries were sent out to sound the attitude of the students, and in accordance with the majority of opinions expressed, a "cafeteroa" system was inaugurated where by the old tables were replaced by smaller ones, and men were permitted to pay by the meal instend...
...birth to a son, six months after the death of her husband. No longer was little Maria Queen; Alfonso XIII, a baby not yet in swaddling clothes, had in theory become King from the minute of his birth. Madrid was burned to a cinder in a great fire of enthusiasm; and the conflagration spread rapidly to the provinces...
...Fish was an actor who, despite the enthusiasm of thousands who paid to see him disport himself in a drawing room with only three sides to it, could not make much of a figure in one with the usual number of walls...
...effectiveness as a speaker. These qualities, one might think, would suffice to make anyone an altogether acceptable Solon. It is not often that any legislator is so fortunate as to possess them all. But no; Senator Rabenold has serious faults. For it appears that in spite of his civic enthusiasm and high principles he has the misfortune to be addicted to the use of imagination and in kindred ways he has "exhibited the Harvard manner." This, it seems, is a damning disqualification in anyone who frequents our halls of legislation. Harvard Alumni Bulletin