Word: enthusiasts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...proposal is advanced to make synthetic lumber on a wholesale scale out of waste sugar-cane fibre and other such industrial byproducts. B. G. Dahlberg of Chicago is the proponent of this idea and a frank enthusiast over its practical possibilities...
Explorer Marsh has long been an enthusiast upon the subject of blond Indians. Anthropologists as yet decline to admit their existence, or to attempt to account for their ancestry in case they do exist...
...carrying over his highly developed logical sense into the less well-defined fields of human relations. Whether he speaks this evening on "Science and Civilization" or "How to Secure World Peace", the University may expect a point of view decidedly different from that of the usual half-muddled enthusiast...
Philip Snowden, the "ascetic, intellectual type of burning enthusiast," "a frail figure of a man who walks with a stick,"- "the man with a hatchet face and small burning eyes sunk deep beneath a projecting brow," the man whose caustic sarcasm has caused his opponents to wither, was known to be a Socialist. Only last Summer he introduced a bill to suppress the capitalist system (TIME, July 23). Small wonder, then, that Socialism was the thought uppermost in the minds of the assembled M.P.'s when Philip Snowden appeared on the Treasury Bench...
...merge with one another, it is somewhat surprising to learn that a new afternoon journal is about to be established. Mr. Frederick W. Enright, of the Boston "Telegram" and the Lynn "Telegram-News", who is contemplating what will be known as the "New York Examiner", seems to be an enthusiast for whom the experience of others holds no chills...