Word: zeal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...their Index Expurgatorius in one hand and sufficient funds in the other to provide them with the latest and freshest in potentially risque literature. The two-kinds-of-falsehood idea should furnish an analogy for a two-purposes-in-reading theory, by which what must be kept with holy zeal from the unconcenrated eyes of ordinary mortals can be read with propriety, and of course without danger to their purity of soul, by these unofficial collagues of Boston's Finest...
...nigh chaotic that it might almost be called natural. Or, perhaps, Harvard has not so much ruled out the yeast as to remove all those leavening distractions which to some degree save the student from the set and sterile point of view of its academic side, its ever-encroaching zeal for "scholarship", and the bugbear of the graduate schools. Our critics are wont to accuse us of being unbalanced if not actually drunk, however...
Said he: "We ask from you courage and wisdom, united with enthusiasm for scholarship. We ask for zeal in the search for truth. . . . We ask for inspiration of our young men and young women. . . . for broad sympathy, high perspective on the values of human life, and helpfulness in the problems of our civilization...
...Richards's presence is indeed comforting, but if his zeal continues unabated, we fear that the Yale game won't end until midnight. And with Albie Booth perhaps running wild in the dark, Harvard's chances--well, you can draw your own conclusions. --Boston Herald...
...profit by the employment of Lobbyist Eyanson; a Senator alone can judge his ethics. His only error, as he saw it, was his failure to notify his colleagues of what he had done. Insisted Senator Bingham: "Nothing dishonorable or disreputable was attempted. . . . My motives were based on my wholehearted zeal for a protective tariff...