Word: zeal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...excess of zeal they lured Roman Catholic children. Angered, the Club of Our Lady of the Assumption sent a delegation to the New Bedford Chief of Police, who immediately reprimanded Rev. R. J. Kirkland, pastor of the Church of the Nazarene. Pastor Kirkland agreed to stop the lollypop luring, had never approved of it anyway. But Pastor Kirkland felt satisfied. In the twelfth week of the contest, attendance at his Sunday School totaled 1,373, to Maiden...
...otherwise be a congenial lifework. As a result, most teaching positions in the lower schools are filled by women, to most of whom, teaching is merely a temporary occupation before marriage. This fact naturally reflects on their value, since it discourages interest in the fundamentals of education and the zeal for sound experimenting, both of which are essential to progress...
...long been the custom to write of popular heroes with a zeal which prolonged their life and works through six or eight carefully documented volumes. While such biography yielded much rich material to scholars it was a tedious task for the laymen. The average reader cared little for the diplomatic achievements of a Disraeli, but he was most anxious to know what manner of man he might be. This desire Strachey was able to fulfill. He employed sufficient facts to block in his background and enough psychology to sketch in the personality. His first work was followed by a life...
...constant advocacy of a United Europe has given him a unique eminence. No other European statesman of equal stature has dared to labor avowedly for that goal. It is true that the wholeheartedness of his zeal for that goal may reasonably be doubted, for M. Briand was first of all a Frenchman. He seemed at times, with the intense nationalism of his race, ready to discard his great conception to preserve the temporary dominance of France. His attitude to Germany was a curious oscillation between friendship and an involuntary suspicion. But it must be remembered that he had always...
...which he shares with Jane Addams, he should have seized the opportunity to put forth concrete proposals for the abolition of war. Characteristic also is the combination of idealism and practicality which his radio speech revealed. It is doubtful, however, if every one who admires President Butler's zeal for peace agrees entirely with the nine measures he advocates to insure...