Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...educational needs. These resources could not have been attained, however, had it not been for the success with which its educational and scientific work has been carried on. In its total picture the Faculty may well be pleased with the past, and it looks forward with confidence and enthusiasm...
...BILL to provide revenue, to regulate commerce with foreign countries, to encourage the industries of the United States and for other purposes. By Representative Willis C. Hawley. This was the Tariff Bill, now officially before the House. But behind the debate was no conviction, no electrifying enthusiasm. The debaters well knew that their words beat empty air, that the real fate of this measure was being settled elsewhere...
Drink. President Portes Gil turned next to Prohibition, the object of his latest enthusiasm. He issued a lengthy document explaining the steps by which he hopes to wean Mexico from the pulque bottle. He created a national committee, with the Secretary of Public Health at its head, to carry these steps out. The steps...
...during the daylight hours; and even near those that do the cries of tennis players can be of little disturbance in an age where the screeches of automobile horns and the grinding of trolley cars are legal anywhere and anytime. Afternoon athletics can hardly be held to dampen the enthusiasm of church-go-ers just because the playground happens to be near a place of worship...
...contemporary writer has been going around to find if the rah-rah stuff is fading out of college sports. He finds that it is. Well, perhaps the enthusiasm in the stands "ain't what it used to be," but that does not mean that a supreme effort on the part of Captain Reid's team would not be appreciated in a quiet manner by the present-day undergraduates. On paper the die is cast against Harvard; on the cinders, in the shot, discuss and hammer circles and in the jumping and vaulting pits the story may be something else again...