Word: warmest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...warmest ambition is to return to a Federal judgeship in California. If Nominee Hoover is elected, she may get the appointment. That the Senate would confirm her is less certain, in fact most doubtful. In her pursuit and presentation of "the moral issue," she has been as hard on Congressmen as on the rest. Her lack of sympathy for the politics of Prohibition embarrassed the G. O. P. in the 1924 campaign. Now she is "the personification of Prohibition." Few Senators are sufficiently "noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose" to approve putting Mrs. Willebrandt on a bench...
...investigation at Columbia then will not center upon a comparison of the wages earned by the educated and the non-educated, but upon the effect of education upon the wage earning capacities of those of equal ability. The result, even though drawn from such uncertain sources, may fulfill the warmest hopes of the investigators in its reversal of accepted facts. But it can interest educators only in so far as it takes from them one more weapon in their futile battle with the business men who question the worth of college education. Although those worn figures can have no vital...
...proof that his pious deed of dropping a large Papal cross on the North Pole (TIME, June 4) has found highest favor in the eyes of the Most Blessed Father and Supreme Pontiff, Achille Ambrogio Damiano Ratti, Pope Pius XI. Enthusiastic, His Holiness sent along with the medal his "warmest congratulations," and finally imparted a solemn Papal blessing...
...William Augustus White Shakespeare Quartos safely and gratefully received. This gift marks an epoch in the history of Harvard Library. Our warmest thanks to your mother, to the members of your family, and to yourself. (Signed) A. Lawrence Lowell...
...literally talks to the ceiling to convince you and himself of the impersonal role he is playing, it is a travesty on education and an insult to the art which he professes (or should profess) to interpret. And when another young man, a professor in this case, reads the warmest poetry in the language "vulgarly" (as a discriminating Frenchman in the graduate school put it) not to say uninspiredly and unappreciatively,--that is a transgression and torturing abuse of "things conceived in the blood and passion of the heart". To many Harvard men the English Department has been reduced...