Word: zeal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...With the zeal for reform which prompted his organization of an antidrinking league as a youth, he kept tackling problems of parliamentary and agrarian inequalities. By 1922 he had pushed through the Lex Kallio, forcing Finland's big landowners to sell property to small farmers at pre-war prices, built a substantial enfranchised middle class by turning tenants into owners. To consolidate Finland's gains he worked hard for Pan-Scandinavianism and national defense, though the odds against him proved overpowering...
...little over one hundred years ago Harriet Martineau, a deaf but gifted English spinster, toured the U. S. equipped with reforming zeal, a philosophical and inquisitive mind, and a huge, old-fashioned ear trumpet which she aimed like a blunderbuss at the people she questioned. She discovered that only seven occupations were open to U. S. women: domestic service, keeping boarders, teaching young children, needlework, weaving, typesetting and bookbinding.* In 1840 two U. S. ladies, Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, attended a World's Anti-Slavery Conference in London, were first barred because of their sex, then permitted...
Missionary Zeal. "This missionary movement arose out of the abounding energy of European and American Christianity. . . . Not since the initial two or three centuries of its history had Christianity been propagated from such purely religious motives or accepted on such exclusively religious grounds...
...Hull has to be careful when he kicks, lest he break the already taut cord of diplomatic relations with Hitler. U. S. representatives would then in turn be booted out of Germany, and the U. S. be deprived of one of its few remaining listening posts in Europe. The zeal of the Dies Committee has not made Mr. Hull's life any easier in this regard. Next to rooting up Reds, what Chairman Dies likes better than anything else is rooting up Nazi spies...
Terrorized by the fiery zeal of the Babsonite campaigners, the Leverett tutors refrained from voting and will take their own count today. Meanwhile Morgan and his men are celebrating their victory amid prophecies of a similar "spiritual reawakening" of the entire student body...