Word: zeal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...figure of speech, the Japanese Army's relay race plunged forward in such fashion that as soon as a slightly wear)' Japanese brigade had captured a Jehol city, another Japanese brigade, fresh and boiling with zeal, pressed on with the offensive, thus keeping the Chinese in ceaseless headlong flight. Even the Japanese General Staff was amazed by the utter crumpling of Jehol's defense as Chinese "generals" either deserted their troops and fled or broke out Manchukuo flags to welcome the invaders...
...previous lectures he has discussed poetry and criticism of the Elizabethan days, during the Restoration period, and of the early days of Romanticism. His last lecture, delivered February 17, criticized the romanticists, especially Shelley and Keats, for forgetting verse in sociological zeal...
...over $5,000,000 in propagandizing America," exclaimed Dr. Frank W. Chinglun Lee, onetime Foreign minister of China, now special envoy to America and adviser to the Chinese legation, in an animated address delivered last Saturday before a gathering of the Chinese Student Clubs of Harvard and M.I.T. Patriotic zeal shone from Dr. Lee's wan features as he urged upon the gathering the need for unity and action. "China does not want war." he said. "Every move she has made since September 18, 1931 indicates her desire to cooperate with other nations for the peace of the world...
Headmaster Stearns, a tall, thin, large-nosed pedagog who had graduated from Amherst and taught at Hill School, brought to Andover two things: an austere determination to maintain pure intellectualism against the encroachments of vocational education; and much zeal for arousing alumni interest in the school. He resisted tinkering with College Board requirements, campaigned to get more students for a full four-year course. In his later years Headmaster Stearns grew less companionable with his students and his sermons frequently emphasized the necessity of repenting...
Salvagers. With more zeal than comprehension, conscientious Wall Street neophytes for more than a decade have ploughed through Lagerquist's Investment Analysis. Last week many of them were surprised to learn that Walter Edwards Lagerquist is a man, not a book. Co- operating with George A. Rogers & Co. Inc., he formed a firm which took for its province all defaulted bonds, now estimated to total $3,000,000,000. Defaulted Securities Co. Inc. will attempt to place a salvage value on sour issues (presumably employing Mr. Lagerquist's famed methods of investment analysis), and then create a market...