Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Coach Bigelow started earnest preparation for the three hard games to be played during the next two weeks with a scrimmage yesterday afternoon. Captain Beals did not dress for practice yesterday, and Hammond was prevented from reporting by an afternoon class. With the exception of Beals, Pratt, and Hammond, the entire squad went through a stiff practice session...
...earnest hope that the fullest measure of success may attend the efforts which are being put forth in this lofty enterprise, I am, dear Bishop, with sentiment of high regard, very sincerely...
Authors Are in Earnest...
...from the manufacture of widgets to the latest place to go for a supper dance. Each part is as nearly perfect as it can be, while the bitter irony that runs through the whole fantastle affair never lets you forget that the play and its authors are dead in earnest...
Meanwhile, the earnest editorialists will discover occult influences at work. Diabolic, middlemen are wringing the shekels from the consumer's pocketbook. That demon, Inefficiency, hauntre of conscientious Americans, is implicated in the plot. The credit for the improvement of the market serves even to make a president, for, according to political medicine-men, it was the jargonish singsong of the last campaign which cast the devil of bankruptcy out of the farmer's "innards...