Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...four years earnest attempts have been made to relieve the stress of this situation, a stress inimical to the peace of the world. The Swiss have offered to sign a note apologizing "sincerely." The Russians have held out for "emphatically...
...reception seemed unfair. Composer Antheil knows the classics, admires Beethoven and Handel above all others, appreciates them intelligently. He is an accomplished musician himself on orthodox instruments. His departures, though radical, are too sincere to be dismissed with a sniff for the showoff. He is, first of all, an earnest young man. Had Manhattan waxed indignant, as did Paris when the mistake was made of facing the propeller toward the audience and thereby nearly blasting them into the street, the youthful creator might have derived satisfaction. Had he been dissected with pedagogical thoroughness, he might have emerged a more famed...
Locarno followed the Dawes Plan; and security in Europe has measurably followed Locarno. It was only when Premier Macdonald pushed his earnest desire for world concord to the length of furthering a rapprochement with Soviet Russia that he lost contact with British public opinion and was obliged to resign the premiership. He remains the strongest single figure in the British Labor party, and may well become premier again. In the U. S. he will spend merely a short Easter vacation, will call upon President Coolidge, will speak only once, before the Foreign Policy Association in Manhattan...
...centuries the very slow progress of morality through processes of natural evolution has proved a constant reproach to the more virtuous and earnest members of the human race. Law, persecution, and reform have all been tried as experiments for forcing people, to measure up to the proper moral standards, but have alike proved failures in the attempt at wholesale elevation of human morality...
...Baker police commissioner last year, although Mr. Baker's friends assured Mayor Walker that the banker would accept the appointment as an obligation. They pointed to the facts that he is, quietly, the President of St. Luke's Hospital, Manhattan, a trustee of Columbia University, and an earnest, active Episcopalian...