Word: fervently
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...volumes recently seized by the Customs agents and during his Christmas holiday pored over improper paragraphs to amass arguments for the retention of censorship (TIME, Jan. 6). His threat to read aloud blush-provoking passages, if necessary, helped to pack the Senate galleries last week. After twelve hours' fervent debate the Senate did reverse its position, did reimpose a modified form of Customs censorship, but without a public smut-reading by Senator Smoot or anyone else. Instead of obscenities, the gallerites heard a long, sprawly, not altogether coherent debate on decency, morals and literature, foreign and domestic...
...fervent minds of the cheering Italian congregation, Pius XI unquestionably appeared at that moment as the dread and visible incarnation of stern St. Peter, girt in the austere scarlet of a bishop to do battle with the Devil...
Many a U. S. citizen who thinks that the U. S. Belegation at the London Conference is the only one sincerely working for disarmament, should read Mainichi's deeply fervent article captioned thus...
...denounced what is going on in Russia as "horrible, sacrilegious iniquities" (TIME, Feb. 7), and promising to hold a service in his Cathedral of St. John the Divine on March 16, when Christian groups throughout the world will offer up, without distinction of creed, a joint and fervent prayer that belief in God and his worship may flourish in the Russian people...
Homes, tractors and typewriters are sold in the belief that they will not soon change owners. Automobile salesmen, however, have the fervent hope that after a year or so the buyer will return for a newer, shinier, faster and perhaps more expensive model of the same make. Charles Franklin Kettering, President of General Motors Research Corp., lately wrote: ". . . Our chief job in research is to keep the customer reasonably dissatisfied with what...