Word: zeal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...columnist, has doubted the economic possibility of a European conflict. Pondering excessively, I am unable to see that the credit agencies, governmental and private, which assisted in the confection of the World War could come to the front again, as so many observers are willing to predict, for their zeal has cooled and their money is padlocked, and mere subsistence is difficult for them. The kind of war which we spell with a capital letter is very, very remote; but there is another kind which the poor in all nations and at all times have embraced, and which...
Jail is the penalty for shouting "Heil Hitler!" ("Hail Hitler!") or any other Nazi slogan in Czechoslovakia. Last week Prague chuckled at the zeal of a town judge in Jagerndorf. Before the judge was brought a prosperous Silesian businessman arrested in peculiar circumstances. He pleaded that the wind had blown off his hat, that he was chasing it shouting "Mein Hütle!" ("My hat!"). "You were not!" snapped the arresting policeman. "You were yelling 'Heil Hitler!'" Taking the policeman's word, the judge sentenced the hat-chaser to one month in jail...
...first thing German business needs is peace and quiet. It must have a feeling of absolute legal security. It must know that work and its returns are guaranteed. The interferences in business which occurred at first, perhaps as a result of too much zeal, have become intolerable and have now been abolished...
...penalty tax upon employers of child labor. But the Supreme Court was not to be fooled by any such oblique methods of social reform and in 1922 declared the penalty tax also unconstitutional. The Child Labor cause was at low ebb but not Mrs. Kelley's dauntless zeal. Only a Constitutional Amendment, she now realized, would do the trick and this...
...respect, and that an honorary degree from Harvard is esteemed and coveted more than any other. Such a degree, if it means anything, should mean that the disinterested scrutiny of scholars has approved the pattern of a life-time of effort; not merely that buildings have been built or zeal manifested for a cause. The names of the chief recipients of this year's honorary degrees from Harvard indicate that the selection has been dictated by the highest standards. Certainly the recognition bestowed on "Al" Smith will be applauded by everyone who appreciates the spirit of Professor Whitehead's reputed...