Word: fervors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hope? No hope, unless we declare war on poverty with the energy with which we warred on Germany. No hope, unless we seek to repeal unemployment with a hundred times the fervor and intelligence men seek to repeal the discredited 18th Amendment...
...Reduce by One-Third." In Washington an hour-and-a-quarter earlier. President Hoover had read his program with fire and fervor to a small group of correspondents specially called to the White House at 9:15 a. m. (see p. 9). Rarely has Mr. Hoover read with so much heart in his voice...
...lift its high head over Manhattan. But when the 1930 Congressional elections came, Al Smith like an old warhorse, sniffed the smoke of battle. Massachusetts Democrats wanted him to help elect Marcus Allen Coolidge to the Senate. He went to Boston and received an ovation that for noise and fervor equaled his 1928 welcomes. Democrat Coolidge was elected over Calvin Coolidge's Republican candidate. The Brown Derby still had plenty of friends...
...parts of Ireland without resistance, in exchange for parts to remain unmolested, where Irish culture, Irish religion can be preserved. To matter-of-fact Brigid this is nothing but schoolgirl's talk; but Catherine, with her saint's face, wakens a kind of fanaticism in Allen-her fervor makes her ideas seem feasible and right...
...midst of a febrile and, in a large part, inane fervor for organizing and expressing student undergraduate political opinion, a new proposal now appears on the horizon, which gives promise of being intelligently constructive and therefore successful. According to preliminary plans, the group will deviate widely from the accepted precepts of independent student associations. Advocating an age old truth that concentration alone leads to thorough understanding, the Harvard Inquiry will organize its discussions each year around the most pressing topic of that time. This year, the basic economic reorganization necessitated by the depression will be studied; it is hoped that...