Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...welfare of the citizen is most intimately bound up, his yearning for the enlargement of the lungs of congested cities in parks and playgrounds, his activity in the husbanding and preservation of the National resources, his patient, persistent, consistent advocacy of the reform of the Civil Service, his earnest labor in the cause of international peace, have prompted his lay sermons and made men harken...
...already retired from the field of billboard advertising, and two large producers of spark plugs and flour are preparing similar retreats. In some of the eastern states, the removal of these hideous and obstructive signs is being hastened by restrictive legislation. Women's clubs and other civic organizations are earnest supporters of the movement for their abolition. And the extension of prohibitive legislation will certainly hasten the withdrawal of manufacturers who in general are more weary of this expensive and unproductive competition...
...their's was a terribly warped and limited existence, and not a pattern to be copied. It would be a mistake to attribute too much sour-grape sentiment to the average undergraduate who refuses to do obeisance to a pure "Rank List" ideal. The ideal college man is an earnest student--but he is more than that. He would be a man--full and complete man--but the "Rank List" ideal too often produces only partial men, great heads on puny bodies, mere walking and talking dictionaries of facts with the sources of imagination and spirit dried up within them...
...Dean's office may yet find a solution to the problem of making Harvard men a tribe of earnest scholars. New experiments carried on by E. D. Hutchinson '22 in the department of Psychology, under the direction of Professor William McDougall, show that "post-hypnotic suggestion" has its practical uses...
...crew is being shipped today from Seattle, Washington. The new boat was built by the well-known constructor, George Pocock, and is a replica of the two purchased last spring Coach Stevens expects to have it on the water in about three weeks when spring practice will begin in earnest...