Word: zealousness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...details of the plan, the tycoons of Lehman Hall have apparently been a bit over zealous. Seconds on such staples as meat and milk are certainly more important than the alternate main courses which decorate the menu and usually look like something from a Ubangi chef's nightmare. For the average student, a second is the exception rather than the rule, but it is a cherished exception when lunch comes as the first meal...
...zealous authorities in Norfolk, Va. did not even wait to hear from the FBI. They rounded up every Japanese they could find, clapped them in jail...
...admitted only to the infantry. But the military branch of a democracy deserves no credit for ignoring the recommendation of physiologists that American Negroes will make the finest tank drivers in the world because of their ability to withstand jolting and heat. There has also been an over-zealous segregation of white and black which adds nothing to the efficiency and detracts much from the morale of the armed forces. The Civil Service, too, needs an overhauling. A few strategically placed bigots have kept Negroes out of almost all civil positions with the government except custodial and service ones...
...Consolidated directors of fraud, took occasion to say one of the nicest things William Hearst has heard about himself for a long time ("extraordinary ability . . . phenomenal success . . ."). To John Francis Neylan, attorney who conceived the idea of Consolidated and became its chief executive officer, the court was equally flattering ("zealous in the protection of its interests...
Last week, 124 years after it was founded, the University of Michigan celebrated its hundredth anniversary for the second time. Four years ago Michigan held its first centennial, commemorating its establishment at Ann Arbor. That celebration flopped when a zealous alumnus dug up an old State Supreme Court decision holding that the university's existence dated back to the 1817 founding of the "Catholepistemiad" (University of Universal Studies), a Detroit secondary school that held no college classes...