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Word: zeal (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week they became something very special and mighty important to New Orleans' world-trading citizens. The 20 acres officially became a free port, the only one in the U.S. outside of New York's foreign-trade zone. New Orleans, now busting its buttons in its zeal to build up its port, second biggest in the U.S. in dollar volume, hoped that its foreign-trade zone would lure ships to the mouth of the Mississippi as New York's had brought ships into its harbor. For the South, now filled with a new spirit of industrialization...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: Port of Dreams | 5/12/1947 | See Source »

...display of power and pomp, a cavalcade of retainers and richly housed palfreys, nor by gorgeous apparel, that the heretics win proselytes. It is by zealous preaching, by apostolic humility, by austerity. Zeal must be met by zeal, humility by humility, false sanctity by real sanctity, preaching falsehood by preaching truth. Sow the good seed as the heretics sow the bad. Cast off those sumptuous robes. Send away those brightly caparisoned palfreys. Go barefoot, without purse or scrip, like the apostles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Caesar with Palm Branch | 5/5/1947 | See Source »

...Greek culinary without being prepared for it, John Cocoris used to explain the mysteries personally to each and every bewildered diner. Today, Greek food is better known in this locality, the Athens, like its neighbor, Jake Wirth's has become a Boston institution, and Cocoris, thanks to his zeal, is a wealthy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Circling the Square | 4/29/1947 | See Source »

Bandied from Clarence Streit's pillar of zeal to the post of public apathy during the past seven years, the vital issue of world government--if, when, and how--has recently emerged from its shell of naivete to blink its eyes to world political realities. Out of the recent merger of six large American organizations--student and general--pledged to some form of strong federal international organization, some hope may now be advance that the confusion over this question among its adherents may be dissipated. The lessons learned by those who formed the United World Federalists at Asheville, North Carolina...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Atomized or Organized | 3/8/1947 | See Source »

Chaplain Smith works a miracle in the cellar. Before his zeal on behalf of the children finally gets him arrested, he even has Yid using phrases like "the Lord permitting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Traveling Joyce | 2/17/1947 | See Source »

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