Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chicago Daily News was meant. The Journal (Hearst) was meant. The Herald-Examiner (Hearst) was meant. The only Chicago newspaper of any dimensions that was not meant was The Journal of Commerce?terse, unemotional, efficient business man's daily, which one Woodlawn Business Man particularized, together with the earnest Christian Science Monitor, as being a "clean sheet...
...when one opened to the story in the December Woman's Home Companion, however, one found "a business man" to be whilom Editor Bruce Barton, with the workings of whose mind one was already familiar. An earnest, sincere man, Editor Barton has a huge following...
...help themselves? There is a bitter scramble for these jobs every year. At the same time an article has just recently appeared in the Yale Daily News, telling of over 200 students helped by Yale University during the past College year. Is it any wonder that the poor and earnest student turns his face oward New Haven...
...seventh Armistice Day passed. On the Sunday before it, earnest men, in tens of thousands of pulpits, urged world peace...
That the student employment bureau is to function in earnest comes as good news for all. Statistics were hardly necessary to prove that Harvard has been behind other universities in smoothing out the financial difficulties of a college career. While the Committee on Vocations reports a high degree of success in its efforts toward placing men after graduation, and the present bureau has always handled well requests for summer positions, there has been not enough of that more important aid throughout the college year to which that revised bureau will especially devote itself. It is the lack of such encouragement...