Word: feverishly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...prospects of a million by July, and a million and a half by December. The latest draft move will effectively divert labor into productive channels. Our finances are good and our people have learned something of the spirit of sacrifice. The whole nation is recovering from the hysteria and feverish but often misdirected energy of the last year...
That warm friendships, heated arguments or feverish energy, are impossible when the mercury is playing tag with the zero mark...
...their respective arts. We look upon the exaggerations and fads in the art of the age succeeding Michelangelo with the same contemptuous pity for so much wasted talent and endeavor, with which future historians of music may one day regard the antics of the post-Wagnerians in their feverish straining after originality...
...small band of picked athletes are being trained and exercised, some think too much, but nevertheless it is exercise and fresh air, while the University at large sits back and "dopes" it out. And yet the fearful storm of controversy over the game and the feverish excitement before the big battles--and only thirty men out of a possible 2,000 are deriving any out benefit--it is to laugh...
...days the feverish rush of work that always precedes the semi-annual examinations will commence; with many men it is already under way. The disturbance that examinations make in the routine of life of the majority of undergraduates is a measure of the scholastic apathy that intervenes; a quietness barely broken by hour examinations, tests, and theses. Interests athletic and social pursued to the exclusion of the purely intellectual are responsible for the unpopularity of examinations, and for the sentiment, often felt if not expressed, that "C is a gentleman's grade...