Word: zealotous
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While a knowledge of scientific methods is obviously a necessary element in education for modern life, this does not imply that one need have a zealot's interest in test-tubes and formulas, stresses and strains. For those whose passions are not aroused by the precise caress of the scientific goddess, little is gained by the manipulation of complex gadgets in the laboratory. A study of the history and philosophy of science would be for them far more significant...
...given another chance and sent to Rome to study for the priesthood in Scots College. Dismissed after five months for "lack of Vocation'' and as a general nuisance, Rolfe returned to England claiming he had acquired the title of "Baron Corvo." Throughout his life he remained a Catholic zealot, thought of himself as the one true Catholic, believed the Church and its modern priesthood were conspiring against him. He found "the Faith comfortable and the Faithful intolerable." Biographer Symons calls his failure to make the priesthood the first step on the road to paranoia...
...finish his own. Prometheans, like his Titans of Literature published last year, is an enthusiastic notebook proclaiming the virtues of some of his favorites. St. Mark serves gusty Author Rascoe as a peg on which to hang his theory, already secondhand, that the real Jesus was a political zealot named Simon Bar Gi'ora, that the four Gospels were really an allegory of an unsuccessful Jewish revolt against Rome. Not Petronius Arbiter but his more rapscallion son, thinks Author Rascoe, was the author of the famed Satyricon, earliest picaresque novel. The neglected Lucian, great debunker...
...Love" and other local color books we get a good picture of that eccentric zealot, the assistant managerial or plain managerial candidate. He is content, especially if he is a kudos-seeking Freshman, to forego his "inner check" and become perhaps even weird in his sense of the power and the glory of the H.A.A. So the antics of one of these flunkies in trying to bar Mr. Bingham from penetrating the Soldiers Field barricade to watch his own Freshman football team surprises us not. But too much discipline is a dangerous thing...
...Daisy Jost's case the Mayo Clinic, urged by Daisy's physician, Dr. William Conrad George Henske, went to the rescue. Guided by Bacteriologist Edward Carl Rosenow, a zealot in finding new germs and new forms of old germs, the Mayo specialists infected rabbits with smears taken from Daisy Jost's throat & nose. Declared Dr. Rosenow: "This is the first time that tests in cases of sneezing have been conducted in this world, to my knowledge. We are hoping that we will find a streptococcus that causes sneezing, so that a serum may be devised to combat...