Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Miscellany appeared, or who the first Merovingian king was, may be required in a course, but after the examination it is so much deadwood, and as such is speedily forgotten. Four years of plowing through courses, and sifting of facts, however, bring out certain significant relations, and the earnest student begins to see more clearly some of the outstanding problems that face his generation. Already he may have trends of thought which suggest possible solutions. If he gets this much out of his college course, he has got all that can be expected of him, for, by the strength...
...have got one side in earnest out here and have had for a long while. I respect the courage of these fellows; but the trouble is, a lot of those on my side have been lying down, trying to preach something to please everybody...
Coming in a presidential year, the 15th annual Convention of the American Bankers' Association (in Chicago) directed its most earnest attention to politics and to economic problems which have been involved in politics. Its keynotes were an out-and-out defense of the existing capitalistic system and a counterattack on its political foes all along the line. Both addresses and resolutions thus included an unusually wide range of topics: demagogs were attacked, the railroads defended; both the direct primary and the Child Labor Law were condemned; public ownership was assailed; a plea for foreign investments was made; the farmer...
...jury will sit for months upon furniture from Michigan. Earnest debates will only be interrupted long enough to bolt down meals prepared with advertised ingredients. That schoolgirl complexion will fade, and unkempt beards, which would defy, the most formidable blade, will hide the beauty of late model collars...
...unpolitic to dub as traitor those earnest men and women who are looking for a better way to settle disputes than by war. They represent constructive effort, as opposed to the destructiveness of the militarists, and they have the sympathy, if not the active support of most of the country. The power and impressiveness of the military is passing, and nothing makes this more obvious than the bombastic utterances of its proponents...