Word: zeal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...names of such famed educators as Professor John Dewey of Columbia, Bishop Francis J. McConnell of New York, Dr. Alexander Meiklejohn of Wisconsin found their places on the committee, but confronted with N. E. A.'s measured investigation, the Save-Our-Schools Committee seemed to lose zeal...
...insecurity of their finances. Money for their work has come haphazardly. Hence to get a regular income they organized the American Foundation for Mental Hygiene. They want a million dollar endowment. Already they have $150,000 pledged, a condition that made Humanitarian Beers, now 52, glow with happy zeal...
...thousand Liberal Delegates cheered these extravagant phrases, mostly for three reasons. First, a Parliamentary election draws nigh, and the Liberals, with only 41 seats in Parliament, must campaign with desperate zeal against Conservatives ("Tories") who hold 412 seats, and the Labor contingent of 157. Second, the death of the Earl of Oxford and Asquith has left David Lloyd George supreme within the Liberal Party, so that even those who dislike his theatric methods hail him as the "Man of Victory." Lastly, the kinetic personality of Orator Lloyd George nearly always sweeps his auditors off their feet. Indeed he swept...
Salespersons in the Bat'a shops, from Singapore to Prague, are well primed with "House organ" facts about The Founder. They know that at the age of six he teased and teased until his shoemaker father whittled him out a tiny last on which with boyish zeal he pegged toy shoes. At 18 the Founder had saved 400 kronen ($80), the fruit of hard pegging and self denial. Also his sister Anna and his brother Anthony (now dead) had each saved 400 kronen, so runs the legend. Thereupon, in 1894, with a total capital of $240, the three...
...said Democrats, "Mr. Hoover has sat upon Mrs. Willebrandt. He has told her her zeal must not go too far or in the wrong direction. New York is the biggest of the States, and hard enough to Hooverize, without annoying it. Mr. Hoover has thanked Mrs. Willebrandt and he has also 'spanked...