Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...following Premier Herriot's speech the Assembly passed unanimously, amid tremendous enthusiasm, a resolution which said, in effect...
...across the counters of his successful chain of grocery stores. To him, apparently, the newspaper differs in no essential respect from a can of peas in which the editors, writers and reporters are of as little significance as the individual pea in the can. . . . This . . . destroys individual initiative and enthusiasm and tends to transform his editorial writers into hired men who, within the narrow limits assigned to them and the still narrower limits inspired by their fear of making a mistake, pound out expressions of what they believe he wants. ... In such an atmosphere . . . the profession of journalism reaches...
...good game to get out of is a definition current among journalists. And yet to no calling do young men throng with a deeper enthusiasm. ... The best preparation for journalism is still, in my judgment, a general education, especially in English, History, Political Science and Economics...
...Harry Gray, American, arrived in Prague, capital of Czecho-Slovakia. Harry was received politely. He announced modestly that he was the reconstructor of Czecho-Slovakia, offered enormous dollar credits to banks, municipalities and industrial concerns. The Czechs began to receive him with enthusiasm. He then wooed and won wealthy Widow Lederer, became head of the largest grain business in the country. Harry was then accepted by the Czechs and Slovaks as one of them, was consulted by eminent financiers, concluded millions of dollars' worth of business, became well established, had his praises sung by all and sundry. One fine...
...lack of enthusiasm current concerning the oil industry has directly resulted from this policy of higher prices. Consumption of gasoline, while in heavy volume, has nevertheless been much less than anticipated, owing to the late Spring and the curtailed motoring season. As a result, gasoline stocks, although declining, are still 2,148,577 barrels. But the higher prices for crude at once stimulated higher production. For the week ending Aug. 16, output for the country was 2,029,650 barrels- an increase of 19,000 barrels over the preceding week, and only about 235,000 barrels behind the smashing production...