Word: fervor
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...Fair a group of youthful and Metropolitan Occidentals, members of the Young American Artist's Association, were also showing their wares. The 75 drawings and paintings flapped against the barnlike outside walls of the Contemporary Arts Building from dawn to dusk last week. If they lacked the fervor of war psychology, there was plenty of emphasis upon sociology in the pictures of tenements and subways they lived among...
...Darwin Divide. Many scientists engaged in the controversy between biology and Mrs. Grundy over Darwin. Conklin was one of the few to do so who had a background of youthful religious fervor. He plumped for Darwinism early, tried to show reasonable Christians that there was no threat from evolutionary doctrine to a practical religion based on Faith, Hope & Charity and the Golden Rule. (Today his religion is a sort of altruistic, pantheistic idealism.) His feeling for religion did not cause him to spare his opponents a crack...
...Night (although Miriam Verne, U. S. dancer who caught Hitler's eye, had gone to Munich to play The Merry Widow). The Rhine suddenly rose, flooded machine-gun nests, concrete pillboxes and subterranean construction on Germany's great western fortifications. In the midst of spring fervor, Nazi health authorities publicized an unbelievable figure: 75% of all young men between 20 and 29, they said, proved, when examined for military purposes, jobs, or party membership, to be suffering from syphilis-a declaration that opened the door to lurid descriptions in Nazi papers, agitation that all healthy citizens be made...
...posthumous claimants was Francis Bellamy, who, in 1892, was an editorial employe of the Youth's Companion in Boston. Mr. Bellamy unquestionably did a job of propaganda to revive patriotic fervor and incidentally stimulated the thriving circulation of the Companion (then in its heyday: circulation around 488,000). To the day of his death in 1931 (aged 75), Francis Bellamy insisted that he wrote The Pledge...
...Shanghai, Japanese Inventor Akishige Matsumoto, in a patriotic fervor because of Japan's war shortage of gasoline, announced he had invented a "vegetarian auto which . . . grazes on fruits and vegetables...