Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Process. Last week the Ways and Means Committee set to work in earnest upon the tax reduction law of 1926. From the conflicting opinions now being heard by the Committee, in all probability two bills will be drawn up. Then the Republican and the Democratic caucuses after some internal bickering will agree to them. The Ways and Means Committee will at last make two reports to the House, a majority (Republican) and a minority (Democratic) report. Then for several days the House will argue, and finally some sort of bill, probably with a number of compromises, will be agreed...
These men are earnest and honest and hard-working and able men, always exceedingly busy directing as many details as can be crowded into the working day. Their idea seems to be that as the department necessarily has supreme authority over all operations, it should therefore exercise this authority in deciding a mass of even highly technical matters in disregard of experts in charge on the spot as in the case of the Shenandoah. This is done in the ignorant conviction of duty faithfully performed...
...since. At present he is thought to be on exceedingly good terms with the Communist leaders, and can count on the powerful influence of Lenin's widow. Hence it is generally believed that Trotzky is now seeking the little Caucasus resort of Kislovodsk "for his health" in good earnest. He is reported to seem weary and to be aging rapidly- he who created the Red Army with the tireless fury of a demon...
...sport. If our students are to compete with the students of other Universities or Colleges we must make certain that they meet their competitors as equals and with the best chance for success that we can give them. If we compete at all we must do so with an earnest effort and with a full hope for success. Anything less is demoralizing and unfitting. This means that they must be prepared by training and instruction, which will often be more rigorous and exacting than would otherwise be necessary or advisable. Whatever excess or exaggerations may have come from this cause...
...late E. H. Harriman in 1908, shortly before his death. When Mr. Loree resurrected the plan last year, American railroad men wondered whether he did it in all seriousness, or merely to bedevil the "Big Four" which had more or less ignored him. Mr. Loree was apparently quite in earnest, however, and applied to the Interstate Commerce Commission for permission to build the new line...