Word: zeal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...manipulating the musty old bones in the Hall of the Age of Man exhibit, in order to prove that man ascended from the brutes". He also accuses the Modernists of "demoralizing their congregations and transforming their churches into club rooms and "social centers" and of "destroying soul-winning zeal and power in foreign lands through the poison of their teaching...
...impatient liberals who delight to contrast the collectivistic zeal of British labor with the very cautious program of the American Federation of Labor will find more material for despair in the work of the annual convention just closing in El Paso. Resolutions against the extension of government activity in business, refusal to join any political party, opposition to Russian recognition--the readoption of these safe-and-sane truisms is enough to make the union leaders life members of the chamber of commerce. Obviously, the American Federation is not radical...
...significance of this yearly pageant bound very closely with the civic history of London whose people have ever safeguarded with religious zeal their ancient liberties...
...growing-pains, England was looking for fresh shapes into which to crystallize its future. The Labor party made itself the champion of change, while the Tories kept to their tradition of motionless progress. The unhappy Liberals, wracked by the conflict between activity to maintain the society which their reforming zeal had created and desire to remain in the van of "forward-lookers," have, relying on their tradition of laissez-faire, opposed the quasi-Socialism of the Laborites, and thrown in their fate with the Conservatives. The negative program of Liberalism, in accomplishing itself, has destroyed the Liberal party. The bloodless...
During the closing years of this decade the zeal to win was as keen as it is today. Unfortunately the ethics of intercollegiate sport were still rudimentary. And so it came to pass that graduates were recalled to play on the teams one, two, and, in one instance, three years after graduation. "Summer baseball" then a novelty made its appearance and there were no rules or precedents to control it. Thus Harvard and Princeton quarreled in 1889 over questions of eligibility of players and ceased to play until 1895. In the latter year as well as in 1896 Harvard...