Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...discontinuing, not from any delinquency among the subscribers, for "personal" journalism needs no promotion manager to retain the attention of its unsolicited clientele, but because wartime has passed. "It is, as a matter of fact, only in this last year or so that there has begun in earnest the relaxation toward that state of men's minds which is?let us suppose it is, anyway?best fitted for peace time, when vision falls back from its high point and must be supplemented by understanding...
Rapid in style as a circus poster, with about the same literary value; sound in doctrine because it is concerned with the concrete thing, the life of Christ, instead of the cloudy figuration, Christianity; unsound because it is totally uncritical, this book is an earnest attempt by Mr. Barton to make Christ in his own image...
...must strive to see as much as we can, to keep our minds as clear from error as possible, and form our judgments by earnest, painstaking effort. We must beware of assuming that an idea is true because it is old or because it is new, but try simply to discover whether it is true or not. To put the matter more accurately, we must endeavor to ascertain how much of truth or error it contains; for from history we learn that the common mistake of men has been to assume that of two opposing views one is absolutely right...
...fact is that over all these sources of shortsightedness we have some control, over many of them very great control. We can lessen our ignorance by earnest search for truth. We can widen our sympathies, and reduce our prejudice by striving to do so, and that without letting our resolution be sicklied o'er by the pale cast of thought. We can control our passions by frankly acknowledging their existence to ourselves...
...enthusiasm to the religion of militant cynicism. As one experienced radical campaigner in, the colleges put it, Scot; Fitzgerald is more revered than Scott Nearing in undergraduate circles of the intellectual elite. Apparently economic and political radicalism has fled from the flippant milieu of the undergraduates, to the more earnest atmosphere of the theological seminary...