Word: fervors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been concluded. As a State with equal rights, Germany with the fullest loyalty will henceforth do her share in settling European problems and in solving such problems as may concern not only ourselves but other nations." Only spectators who know both Germany and Hitler could fully appreciate the fervor of this declaration by Der Führer or the fervor of the response evoked...
...sent out orders to begin executing on New Year's Day Chinese caught selling, buying or smoking opium, and that beginning New Year's Day nobody had been executed for that crime (TIME, Jan. 11). This, according to the Christian Marshal, was outrageous. With Old Testament fervor he demanded that the Chinese Government, many of whose members are decidedly New Testament, finish up with wholesale death what they had started. Over 100,000 addicts had been slated for execution in Peiping alone...
...Brooks, with the planning and erection of Phillips Brooks House and with the organization of the Phillips Brooks House Association as a center of various religious organizations of students and of their activities in the line of social service. His special interest in the latter reflected an almost apostolic fervor in making the modern world, and especially university men, aware of the social and ethical implications of the changes which the industrial revolution had brought in human society...
Riding the crest of a wave of photographic fervor that carried with it the formation of the Harvard Film Society to present epoch-making pictures, Widener Memorial Library yesterday received from Adolph Zukor, of Paramount fame, a gift of 500 prints from motion pictures he has made...
Combining in fresh and spontaneous form the kinetic appeal of Lives of a Bengal Lancer with the patriotic fervor of Cavalcade, The Charge of the Light Brigade will be important to cinema students less for the solution it offers as to the riddles of the Light Brigade than for the mystery it deepens as to why the U. S. cinema industry can wave the British flag so much more effectively than its own. In this case, the specific credit for so doing goes, in addition to its authors, to Irish Actor Errol Flynn, Hungarian Director Michael Curtiz...