Word: zeal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Biography,† by Ferdinand Lundberg, onetime Chicago reporter and New York Herald Tribune Wall Street man. A charter member of the American Newspaper Guild, newshawks' union with which Mr. Hearst is perpetually at war, Biographer Lundberg entrenches himself on the economic Left and muckrakes his subject with pious zeal...
...prime example of his period and place, Noah Webster (1758-1843) was a school-teacher who by zeal and persistence became a Citizen Fixit to the whole U. S. Because he insisted on bursting out of his own bailiwick to mend his neighbors' manners, he was not popular; but before he died the U. S. was proud of him. Even more than his Dictionary his famed blue-backed Speller (which sold nearly 100 million copies before it went out of use) knit U. S. dialects together into one more-or-less standard tongue, poured a patriotic iron tonic into...
...picket are relatively few. But the identity is there; and the protest is shaped out of the same sound impulse in both cases. After all, armies are never made up of altruists. Only a few men fought for woman suffrage; only a handful of Gentiles will work with genuine zeal for the rescue of the German Jews. As long as repression, however widespread, is aimed chiefly at workers and avowed radicals, the middle class will inevitably minimize its importance or deny its existence. But when the stink bombs begin to drop in the academic trenches the troops tumble...
Without question the growth and vigor of the Department has been due primarily to the zeal and forward-looking optimism of two men--Professors Sorokin and Zimmerman. It shows an unhealthy condition in any department to have two men carrying by far the major burden of departmental responsibility and routine, as well as a great teaching load. One senior member has shown for several years an astonishing disregard of the best interests of this department. There can be no excuse whatsoever for a "gang your own way" attitude, with all that it implies about neglect of departmental duties, ragged lecturing...
...faculty committee on a change to an unlimited cut system. Freshman year he won the honored Porter Admission Prize for the highest mark on an examination in Latin, mathematics and English. At the end of his sophomore year he was awarded the honored John Sumner Runnels Prize for "zeal for knowledge and industry to attain...