Word: zeal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first item in your magazine this week (Dec. 7 issue) consists of a short paragraph stating that Coolidge received a letter from John L. Lewis stating that the bituminous operators had broken their contract. In your zeal to keep up your reputation for giving information in short paragraphs, you failed to mention that this is the same Coolidge who on July 19 assured the newspapers at Swampscott that he "has determined to prevent a coal strike." The strike came, as we all know, and "the little calm, cool man" had the same remedy as usual to suggest, "nothing...
...accident of a week ago Sunday in which a Hudson coach was overturned and two people injured, one of them very seriously, I have come to the conclusion that either the Traffic Department is originally negligent, or that the danger of this corner has been overlooked in the zeal of the force in playing little jokes on the student body in the way of an eight dollar towing bill for leaving a Ford or so harmlessly on the street at night...
...American friends (who dislike seeing the term "American" appropriated by the United States), TIME employs a "checker" whose special function it is to cross out "American" wherever it is improperly used and to insert "U.S." In editing "early American furnishings" into "early U. S. furnishings," this person permitted his zeal to overbalance his good sense...
...being is without it, and the bias of TIME is to be inferred from the associations of its owners as well as its choice and treatment of news matter. The only assurance of a minimum of bias is in the editorial control of a superior judicial mind animated with zeal for ideals set forth by your advertisements...
...inordinate zeal for pumping, three years later, sounded the death knell for the volunteer firemen. At one of the company's drills, either out of malice, or because the chief of the company was not entirely certain of his bearings, the room of the College Regent was chosen as the scene of the "fire". Not until this "fire" had been thoroughly extinguished by gallons of water directed through an open window did the furious pumpers desist, and only when the window was closed by the saturated occupant of the room, was the drill declared over...