Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with the ready smile?gay, brave to the point of recklessness, with features in no wise handsome, but none the less attractive?is in reality a monarch beloved by his people. Much more than his embittered enemies may he be called a democrat of Spain. Hard-worker, severely earnest in fulfilling his responsibilities, unusually tactful and liberal-minded, rapid and accurate in his decisions, he combines to a high degree of perfection those qualities of intellect for which he has earned recognition. If he has had his affaires?and he has?they have in no way diminished his ability...
...problems of the present football situation at the University will be attacked in earnest when the newly appointed football advisory committee meets on January 15 for the first time. The questions of the selection of a head coach, the appointment of a staff of coaching assistants, and the formation of the program which will be followed when football practice begins next September, will all be settled at this meeting, and then submitted to the Harvard Committee on Athletics for final approval...
...Lampoon extends its Christmas greetings within a cover on which Saunders has successfully emphasized the festive season without a hint of mistletoe or the bearded ancient, and barely a touch of green and red, distinctly an achievement. There are signs of an earnest effort to give the rest of the issue both text and pictures, the same seasonal flavor, but with an indifferent result which suggests that there may be some foundation for the persistent reports that nobody is getting into the proper mood this December...
...earnest souls in Western colleges who are reported to be praying for Harvard's spiritual welfare the news that Appleton Chapel is to be reserved wholly for members of the University next Sunday must come as a welcome answer to their pleadings. But to the student who has found a cloak-room jam at every door of the Chapel whenever Dr. Fosdick was to speak the announcement comes rather as evidence of a true spirit of brotherhood among University authorities. Perhaps the only persons to feel disgruntled are those residents of Cambridge who have so far forgotten their college habits...
...greatest churchmen and pulpit orators of this quarter century. He is perhaps most representative of the church-going public. But most of the Council's work has been done by its General Secretary, Charles S. MacFarland. Stoop-shouldered, square-jowled, limping a little, a deeply earnest Christian, he travels indefatigably from state to state, from nation to nation. In 1923, he made 225 speeches at 250 conventions. Last year, he organized the Hugue-not-Walloon celebration, selling $25,000 worth of tercentenary coins, for which he was bitterly assailed as an "unscrupulous propagandist." He it is who must keep...