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Word: enthusiasm (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Robinson's father permitted him to attend Harvard as a "special student." During his two years in Cambridge his letters bubble with reports of avid study, vast reading and literary enthusiasm. Yet he continued to suffer from the curse of his shyness; he self-consciously reports a search for "someone . . . with whom I can smoke a pipe and talk of Matthew Arnold." Robinson was aware of his social limitations; while visiting a professor's house, a girl took him under her wing, but "I do not think she was trying to seduce me . . . her eyes were too large...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poet in America | 3/8/1948 | See Source »

...overenthusiastic. Dr. John H. Talbott, of the University of Buffalo School of Medicine and the Buffalo General Hospital, sounded this warning in the current issue of the New York State Journal of Medicine: "It is only human to minimize the untoward reactions of a new therapeutic substance in the enthusiasm of discovering and subjecting it to clinical trial." Dr. Talbott listed, in detail, the wonder drugs' dangers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Take It Easy | 3/1/1948 | See Source »

...reason for this enthusiasm can be found partly in the excellence of the two performers, and partly in the broad appeal of the music itself. But the fact that the music was played on the instruments for which it was written--violin and harpsichord--is what made the concerts truly memorable...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fine Musicians Play in Boston, Cambridge | 3/1/1948 | See Source »

Nobody believed him. They knew how hard it was to get steel and construction workers. But the town caught Reese's enthusiasm, sent a delegation to the National Steel Corp.'s Ernest T. Weir. Weir promised to send steel. From his Great Lakes Steel Corp. in Detroit, Weir also sent Quonset-type buildings. The Pennsylvania Railroad helped out by giving priorities to Reese's materials and stopping through trains at Scio just to unload them. When he ran short of cash, five New York chain stores, which had sold millions of pieces of Reese-made china, lent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Potluck | 2/23/1948 | See Source »

...took 2½ years for London's enthusiasm to spread to Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House. Why? For one thing, no one ever accused the Met of being progressive. General Manager Edward Johnson works on the theory that his customers like what they have been given, because they come back for more. Season-ticket holders buy out 85% of the house in advance, and take potluck. More than half of them have held seats for ten years; 10% of them for 40 years. Says Johnson: "Why should we force a new venture when we can sell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Opera's New Face | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

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