Word: fervorous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...make matters more difficult, the soldiers worked with unabashed fervor to make good (and possibly win furlough extensions), and to make as much as $100 a week, with overtime. They worked as if they had never heard of anything but a seven-day week...
Christmas Hymns (victor Chorale, Robert Shaw conducting; Victor; 4 sides). Gifted Choral Conductor Shaw (TIME, Jan. 25, 1943) gives distinction as well as fervor to an anthology of oldtime choruses like Adeste Fideles and Hark! The Herald Angels Sing. Recording: good...
Into this desolation falls the Star, and around it assemble the characters of the Nativity's great drama. The old Auden mixture of flippancy and fervor appears at its strongest in these passages...
Nonetheless, Stakman is no gloomy defeatist. His $300,000 laboratory at the University of Minnesota is one of the liveliest in the U.S., pulsing with Arrowsmithian fervor. His graduates have scattered over the earth, today are fighting fungi in Europe, Australia, China, India. Stake's popularity with youngsters is the talk of the campus. Told that her family planned to have steak for dinner, a faculty tot once burst into tears, sobbed: "But I like him. He's nice...
...Petrunkevitch regards fear of spiders as mischievous nonsense. Spiders, says he, never attack people unless hurt. He has handled hundreds of tarantulas, never been bitten. With evangelical fervor he points out that the spider is immensely useful to man; it carries no diseases, destroys many insects that do. The strong, fine strands of spider webs have been very helpful in the wartime manufacture of optical instruments and range finders. Says Pete Petrunkevitch, unmindful of Miss Muffet: "Only in civilized cities like New York and New Haven are the ladies afraid of spiders. In tropical lands the people value their presence...