Word: enthusiastically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This year lifeboat racing, with the Hague Trophy about to be retired, got a new silver cup from another enthusiast, Joseph W. Powell of United Shipyards. Inc. Run off just before the Hague event, not in lifeboats but in uniform Monomoy surf boats borrowed from the U. S. Coast Guard, the first Powell Cup race attracted a field of seven crews, fastest of which proved to be that of the United Fruit Co.'s freighter San José, which stroked the course...
Back on a newspaper, his boss, an enthusiast named Byron Cole, sold him on the idea of taking over Nicaragua. A fat prize, it turned out to be too fat-Walker had to meet competition from the feasting eyes of England, Spain, the U. S., the more glittering eye of Cornelius Vanderbilt, who controlled the lucrative transit route across Nicaragua. The deal by which Walker evaded U. S. neutrality laws provided that the Nicaraguan "Democrats" .invite him to send in "colonists." By the time the "Democrat" leaders realized what Walker was up to, it was too late to regret having...
...Labor's Non-Partisan League, John L. Lewis of C. I. O. denounced the House Committee Wages & Hours tie-up, threatened to form a new party to effect social legislation if the Democratic Party failed to do so. William Green of A. F. of L., no real enthusiast for the bill, also made some deprecating remarks...
...clean start behind Wrestling Promoter Paul Bowser's DeSota, entitled by lot to the pole position in the first heat. Two horses were so unmanageable that the judges had to set down and replace their drivers, Veteran Doc Parshall and Amateur Dunbar Bostwick, trotting enthusiast of the Long Island polo family, who was driving his bay filly, Hollyrood Audrey, in his first Hambletonian...
...rocket enthusiast . . . in an unguarded moment . . . might prophesy that we will eventually travel at speeds governed only by the acceleration which the human body can stand, and that in rocketing between America and Europe we will accelerate halfway across the ocean and decelerate during the other half. Or, he might even point his rocket toward another planet and, without regard to fuel supply, landing facilities, or Professor Goddard, lose himself in interstellar space...