Word: zealousness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...site of New Towne, now known as Cambridge, was selected in the early summer of 1630 by a little group of Puritans under John Winthrop and Thomas Dudley. These zealous people, just arrived from England, formed the nucleus of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and proudly carried the royal charter for their new settlement. The party divided, however, and Winthrop with his following removed to Boston, while Dudley remained in Cambridge with his supporters. Where the new gym is to rise was one of the first settled portions of the little village...
That was up to last week, when Smithsonian Secretary Charles Greeley Abbott, zealous for his scientists' labors and his Institution's reputation, made a loud and lusty complaint. Those book agents, he declared, were misrepresenting. They let buyers believe that the Smithsonian Institution was publishing the books and making large profits. Really the Smithsonian Scientific Series, Inc., new Manhattan concern, was publisher. The Institution received only 10% royalties, a ridiculously small percentage, which he had vainly sought to get increased, whereas the book agents were getting 25% to 35% commissions. The Institution was tied up by contract for 30 years...
...zealous work of the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce and the Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics, newspapers now give no more emphasis to air accidents than to motor or train accidents. And seldom do they mention the name of the plane and motor in the crash. The idea of this censorship is to avoid scaring prospective airplane owners and riders, to protect the public's air-consciousness from unnecessary jars...
...beginning of this week Newark's municipal airport became the official air mail depot for New York City and nearby points. Hadley Field had been the terminal. The changeover was not without confusion and argument. Newark's mayor, Jerome T. Congleton, zealous for good future income on the city's $7,000,000 airport investment, demanded one cent for every pound of mail delivered to the field or sent therefrom. Pitcairn Aviation (New York-Atlantic mail) and National Air Transport (New York-Chicago mail) wished to pay a flat $600 a month fee. Mayor Congleton...
...evolution. It is not Man who is the "special creation" but the whole vertebrate kingdom. Mr. Clark's unorthodoxy, evidently, is merely that he cannot trace any evolutionary relationship between the lowest from of fish and the invertebrate kingdom. And so the whole discussion was caused merely by a zealous newspaper man who saw a headline in a few of Mr. Clark's inaptly chosen phrases...