Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...quaintly literal sense of the word: tolerance and uplift of the Negro, free trade, women's suffrage, child labor laws, free speech. The journalistic tradition of which he is heir was originally voiced by his Abolitionist grandfather, William Lloyd Garrison, founder of the Liberator: "I am in earnest-I will not equivocate-I will not ex-cuse-I will not retreat a single inch- AND I WILL BE HEARD...
President Diaz (recognized by the U. S.) announced last week that, aided by a $1,000,000 loan placed in Manhattan, he will be able from now on to pay his Conservative soldiers 50¢ a day. As an earnest of this the Conservative troops were reported to have received a flat payment of $2.50 each last week, pending the arrival of promised U. S. gold...
...John E. Williams, Vice Chancellor of Nanking University, was the sole U. S. citizen killed, last week, in China. An earnest and simple Christian, he was held in affectionate esteem by thousands of Chinese. Of him Dr. Keigwin, pastor of the Manhattan congregation which maintained Dr. Williams in China, said, on learning of his death, "Jack Williams was one of the best friends China ever had.... If he could speak he would say he accounted it a privilege to go to the Cross as Christ went...
...Dempsey's championship days are over;" was Maloney's comment," he himself hasn't decided whether or not he will start training in earnest for an opportunity to meet Tunney again. I think he would be best off if he gave up the attempt. Even if he does take it up seriously I feel sure he will be beaten before he ever gets a chance at Tunney...
...same time entirely neglecting Lya de Putti? Since the attractions of these two charming ladies are closely allied by a certain common denominator, one would expect them to be equally appreciated by the Yale man-about-Chapel-Street, so renowned in ribald Princeton and Harvard verse. So we earnest hope that this balloting will not bring on an epidemic of inferiority complex at either college. Daily Princetonian, March...