Word: enthusiasts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...enthusiast of golf, tennis, and swimming the strip artist likes to pretend that University students are responsible for her success in Boston. "I like to read and knit, too", she said,"--awfully old fashioned...
...reviewer for writing the best statement on Virginia Woolf that this writer has ever seen (TIME, April 12). What many lecturers on the novel have endeavored to put across in a month's time, is set forth in TIME so concisely and yet so fully that the Woolf enthusiast is given at once the whole essence of Woolfism. And to crown the whole evaluation TIME takes the crux of Woolfism for its cover caption: "It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple Virginia Woolf has turned her back on the microscopic detail of Naturalism...
...between major and minor seems to mean very little. A soccer player, for instance, takes his training as seriously, is just as worked up over the thought of getting into the Yale game, and will as willingly give his last effort for the cause as any football or hockey enthusiast. In tennis, another of the lesser sports, the team competitor has even more responsibility to keep on the top of his form, since he is individually responsible for the success or failure of his own particular match. Likewise in lacrosse and many others it seems inconceivable that the players...
...people may develop artificial fever) ; Dr. Walter Malcolm Simpson of Dayton, Ohio, Mr. Kettering's good friend who helped design the hypertherm, and who has written authoritatively on the use of artificial fevers in curing gonorrhea and early syphilis; and Dr. William Bierman of Manhattan, an early fever enthusiast who organized last week's conference on fever therapy...
This competition covers 25 working days and is a test of executive ability as well as a job of especial interest for the baseball enthusiast. Incidentally it is the last opportunity for a member of the Sophomore class to become manager of a major sport...