Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...course, be argued that concentration does not begin in earnest until the sophomore year anyway, and that the freshman has plenty of time to look around, himself, before commencing. As a matter of fact, this theory of the drifting freshman coming to a safe mooring by his second year is both dangerous and fallacious. It is fallacious because nineteenths of the first-year men have no more real understanding of the purposes and potentialities of a Harvard education in June than, they had in September. It is dangerous because it may involve an irreparable loss of time and the self...
...first actual work on the $1,500,000 enlargement, of Langdell Hall was started last week and operations began in earnest yesterday when two steam shovels began the excavations for the foundations...
Memorial Day, in a very earnest address, President Hibben of Princeton welcomed the students to the new $2,200,000 chapel whose doors he had just opened with a scriptural adjuration. "Beauty," he said to them, "is not an empty form. It has its content both of thought and feeling. It is an attribute of God himself . . . We believe that this chapel will fulfill another function than that of corporate worship, that it will prove to be for many a house of refuge in time of trouble and distress...
...Alfred Mond "Biggest British Chemist," Irénée du Pont, and many another. Germans the hosts. Secret talk about nitrates. The yacht steams down the blue Adriatic from Venice to Corfu and returns. Meanwhile banqueting to tempt Lucullus. Scuppers running with champagne. But always more and more earnest talk of nitrates. The whole junket an achievement in making pleasure implicit with business...
These mighty benefactions, as everyone knows, came from oil?oil of a day when a businessman had to be crude to be successful. And yet. the methods of that day fathered the modern corporation. Much ethical refining has been done, to be sure, as witness the demand of earnest John D. Rockefeller Jr. for the resignation of Robert W. Stewart as chairman of the board of the Standard Oil Co. of Indiana...