Word: zealousness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...French discoverer of "self-anaesthesia" claims only that it will be useful for minor operations, such as extracting teeth, when the cause of pain is only momentary, and when the patient's heart is sound. Even at that, it may be widely useful; "Painless Dentistry", the promise of zealous advertisers, can become an everyday reality; and the ordeal of removing splinters and cinders will be only a matter of a few deep breaths...
...hard cider", with too little of the former and too much of the latter. But the interest is still there and tonight at the Union, the open meeting of the newly organized Republican Club, with men like Senator Moses and Senator Wadsworth speaking, will be crowded with students "zealous in their interest for the public welfare...
...sentence. As I have said, they are to put it mildly, mediocre. There are exceptions, however, particularly in the work of Mr. Raymond, Mr. Child's Prologue is also deserving of mention, although he can do and has done better work. It would seem that the committee in their zealous attempts to improve the photographs, almost invariably of a poor quality heretofore, had let the art department slip a little from the high standards of its predecessors. The drawings of last year's book for instance, made the volume stand out above those of former years, that of the present...
...Directors of the Cambridge Chapter of the American Red Cross greatly appreciate the generous response made by the students of Harvard University to its appeal for funds, and warmly thank the students who gave so liberally, the Student Council which allowed the drive, the zealous and active canvassers, and the HARVARD CRIMSON which gave active and effective support...
There is another beneficial effect which will accrue from the treaty. Besides settling affairs to some extent in Great Britain, it should relieve this country of its horde of propagandists and over zealous Irish enthusiasts. Perhaps for a time we may be allowed to direct our own business undisturbed. The professional "anti-Britisher" will of course discover immediately a strange sympathy with India and the followers of Ghandi; but it is difficult to see where the Irish-Americans have any excuse for further agitation. It is to be hoped that they themselves will look at things in the same light...