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Word: earnest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...earnest baseball devotee I long have admired Babe Ruth's batting ability and I look forward with pleasure to meeting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Great Sensation | 9/10/1928 | See Source »

Miss Helen Wills, California tennis girl, as head of the sports division of the Women's Committee. Reason: "Youth's earnest desire to be of service...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: Votes Sep. 3, 1928 | 9/3/1928 | See Source »

...Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson of Chicago is a supreme example of the importance of not being earnest, of "giving a good show." (In this connection, Mr. Kent makes the astonishing statement that President Coolidge has "a profound distaste" for fishing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Rule Book | 9/3/1928 | See Source »

Last week, with frown and earnest speech, a group of Bretons foregathered in Chateaulin,* Brittany. Their purpose, characteristic, was serious. But Paris giggled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Bedless Autonomists | 9/3/1928 | See Source »

...Nominee for the Vice Presidency in 1912, sounded off at great length in a letter to the New York Times. He said he could not put up with Nominee Hoover's position on Peace and Prohibition. He was, he said, confident that "Literally, millions of earnest Republicans" would agree with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Statements | 8/27/1928 | See Source »

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