Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...place. A common intense interest in public questions and a keen desire to do their part in the political life of the nation brought the members of the Democratic Club together. Their convention tonight and tomorrow will be a jovial and lively climax to months of serious discussion and earnest work and the platform which is adopted will be the chief fruit of their labors. It will be a sincere expression of the opinions of Harvard's politically minded, progressively inclined students...
...reality these are outnumbered by the many who see it merely as one of the ways of learning his own possibilities. Such training may rarely produce vocational certainties and its specific usefulness is as various as individuals. Yet it is a testing wand which, if the student is earnest, often betrays many an unknown vein...
...exploded last week near the plant of La Voce Italiana in Scranton, Pa., injured three people, wrecked nearby shops, but did not damage the newspaper's press. Police searched for a possible connection between this and the bombing on New Year's Eve of the Scranton Sun, earnest crusader against crime, smallest English daily in Scranton, published by W. H. Hallstead...
...Manhattan in two special trains of twelve cars each, with two baggage cars and four diners. He wrote to the papers, asking that audiences attend his performances in a special mood of gravity and that they refrain from wearing bright colored clothes, lest there should be discord in the earnest surroundings of Holy Week, and lest the spell of a "musical masterpiece" be injured. Further, Mr. Gabrilowitch said this: "In all the years of my musical experience I have never found as much joy and inspiration in any artistic task as in the study and preparation of Bach...
Last week the wiping process began in earnest when six diplomatic notes simultaneously changed hands at Shanghai, between Nationalist Foreign Minister Huang-Fu and the U. S. Minister to China, John Van Antwerp MacMurray. Nanking promised in substance that: 1) reparation will be made to U. S. citizens who suffered when the city was captured; 2) the Chinese who looted and in one instance murdered will be punished, and, 3) hereafter, U. S. citizens will enjoy protection and security in Nanking...