Word: zeal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Emergency Council and member of the National Industry Recovery Board. He was called in as consultant when the Federal Housing Act was being drafted, named FHA director for New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland. Last week President Roosevelt found a higher post on which Charles Edison might expend his zeal, named him Assistant Secretary of the Navy, a job vacant since the death of Henry Latrobe Roosevelt last February...
...this time became Il Capo del Officia Stampa del Capo del Governo (The Head of the Press Office of the Head of the Government), later was given the rank of Minister for Press & Propaganda. He never could understand why foreign correspondents do not write with the same pro-Fascist zeal which came naturally to him when he was himself a reporter on the Rome Tribuna...
Pastor Lewis Valentine, heedless of the judge's frequent warnings that he must not make irrelevant remarks, vehemently justified the burning, thundered with apostolic zeal: "The English Government's behavior in the matter of the bombing school is exactly the behavior of the new Antichrist throughout Europe. . . . The establishment of the bombing field would make imminent the death of our Welsh nation. . . . It is my responsibility for the Kingdom of God in Wales that urged me to strike the blow for Wales. Our allegiance to the laws of Christianity is infinitely higher than our allegiance to the laws...
During past years the last named purpose has flared with almost sacred zeal. It is a matter of common knowledge that last year one young American successfully wound up the season in possession of a soccer ball, a pair of spectacles, several rolls of adhesive tape, and a varigated assortment of sweaters...
...student and tutor. Their concept of professional training was, to be sure, largely cast in terms of the ministry, but they envisaged also training in the law and medicine. The liberal arts educational tradition they transplanted in toto from the colleges which they had left behind. And finally, their zeal for the cultivation of learning is made evident by the reference in the charter of 1650 to "the advancement of all good literature, arts and sciences...