Word: passional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...learning and unquenchable enthusiasm of James Henry Breasted built up the greatest archeological empire in the Near East, with a dozen armies of diggers at work all around the "Fertile Crescent" from the Persian Gulf to the Nile Valley. So able was he in infecting other men with his passion that for Breasted and the University of Chicago John D. Rockefeller Jr. founded the Oriental Institute with an endowment of some $13,000,000 (TIME, Dec. 14, 1931). From that ornate building which houses one of the 40-ton stone bulls of Sargon II, the rosy, white-haired little...
...picked up for driving on the wrong side of a bridge at 40 m. p. h. While Mmes Harriman and Whitney awaited trial, the police stopped a fourth speeder, collected $8 from Professor Anton Lang Jr, of Georgetown University, son of the one-time Christus of the Oberammergau Passion Play...
...insatiable and horrible rhythm to the play, a rhythm reinforced and given a high tragic emphasis by the force and poignant vigor of McLaglen's acting. The gloom of the foggy night with its almost animate compulsion of remorse and terror and repentance and the tale of revolutionary passion in the furtive Republican Army provide a grim warp along which the fate of the informer is woven with almost classical measuredness and tragic purpose. It is unfortunate that the construction is not a little more closely knit. The reason for his deed--the salvation from the streets of a woman...
...masses of his countrymen his purposes and his character were an open book. They loved him well because they understood him well-his passion for justice, his championship of the cause of the exploited and the downtrodden, his ardent and flaming patriotism...
...above Presidential powers from "may" to "must." Senators Nye, Clark and other members of the Congressional peace-by-isolation bloc were, in general, surprised and pleased by the Administration's concessions to their ideas of Neutrality. Meantime this week they planned to bring the nation's peace passion once more to white heat and whoop Neutrality through Congress by haling J. P. Morgan & Co. before their Senate Munitions Investigating Committee, setting out to reveal how much that firm's Allied loans and credits were to blame for sending the U. S. into...