Word: enthusiastically
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Just what is a railroad enthusiast...
...ideal day of rest for the railroad enthusiast is spent on a jaunt with his fellow enthusiasts to a destination which has significance in railroad history. The enthusiast of course prefers to ride behind steam, but in these trying times of dieselization, must be content just to ride. Whenever the "hogger" (engineer) stops for water (and engineers must ration such stops carefully now), just as like as not the railroad enthusiast will leap from the vestibule, race to the engine, and consume a role of Kodachrome in the excitement of the moment. If he's not taking photographs...
...book from his hand, and observed, "Hey, you're in Ec I too, huh?" Pretty well everybody was interested in the B & M's engine, the 3713, which is the line's last P-4 Pacific-type. It has a wheel arrangement of 4-6-2, which, as an enthusiast knows, is the way you distinguish one steam engine from another. Others, like the two fellows who brought their tape recorders along, took special delight in 3713's whistle, which is marked for posterity on a commercial disk scheduled for release by Charles Clarke, an electronics specialist from Newton. Still...
Although the sight of two feet of snow on the ground and a promise of more from the weatherman should be enough to discourage even the most violent tennis enthusiast, tennis coach Jack Barnaby is already thinking in terms of what might be "the most successful tennis season in over thirty years...
Since World War II Rosenthal has been run by Philip Jr., 39, who got his M.A. at Oxford, did a stretch in the Foreign Legion, and is an amateur pilot, skier, cross-country runner and sports-car enthusiast. Realizing that the company's designs were outmoded at war's end. young Philip had new lines styled by Europe's top artists-Finland's Tapio Wirrkala, Germany's Bele Bachem. France's Jean Cocteau. In 1951, when U.S. sales slumped, Rosenthal teamed up with Designer Raymond Loewy to make medium-priced contemporary dinnerware for American...