Word: zeal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week's peace parade was the high point of the Northfield season. The 2,000 marchers took a peace pledge. Rev. James Myers, industrial secretary of the Federal Council of Churches, declared: "Missionaries have ever been the shock-troops of religion. ... As the church now turns with missionary zeal, courage and sacrifice to the high adventure of the abolition of war, we may look forward with renewed assurance to the final victory of peace and goodwill among...
...Zeal v. Experience. From the Commissioners down, SEC is organized on the old Persian principle of placing mutually jealous people side by side. Men drawn from Wall Street are set off against those whose former connections with the securities business, if any, were largely academic. New Deal zeal is balanced with Wall Street experience...
After the secret Government session at which this decision was taken Count Coreth, the official rapporteur, announced with apostolic zeal: "The Austrian people could no longer endure the injury done the Habsburgs in 1919 when they were deprived of their citizenship and property. Dollfuss, from his place in Heaven, will surely be glad to know that the Austrian Government is canceling this unjust...
...frank to admit that the presentation of these photographs is quite unusual at a hearing of this kind," cried Director Driscoll. "In my zeal and desire to adequately place before the negotiators the problem confronting my fellow-workers, I am eager that the negotiators . . . shall first of all be given reasonable opportunity to gaze upon the countenances of the army of workers whose happiness, contentment and prosperity is in their hands...
...twisted foot kept husky Ernest Elmer Baker out of the War, but he got to Germany after it was over. There, according to his mother, "he fell from grace." Back in Menard, Tex., where he worked occasionally at bricklaying, Ernest Elmer Baker made up for his lapse by the zeal with which he took up Pentecostalism in 1933. Pentecostalists roll on the floor and believe that prayer will cure anything, even a sliced artery (TIME, July 23) or a rattlesnake bite (TIME, Aug. 20). Last year Ernest Elmer Baker, 38, got the idea that it would cure Russian Godlessness...