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Word: earnest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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With the announcement of this contest, the preparations for the first performance start in earnest. Coach Silvers took charge of the cast again on Sunday, bringing with him from New York Sammy Lee, a producer, who will drill the chorus and the dancing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pudding Limerick Contest Open to Freshmen; Cast Rehearsals Start in Earnest With Silvers' Return; Lee to Train Chorus | 3/26/1924 | See Source »

...SAINT JOAN?G. B. Shaw does his earnest best to whack a meaning out of history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: The Best Plays: Mar. 17, 1924 | 3/17/1924 | See Source »

...winter season began in earnest when college was resumed after the Christmas recess. All men ran three times a week over a distance varying from three to five miles. Coach Stevens has laid such emphasis on running not only in order to develop the wind of the oarsmen but more especially the leg muscles, upon which rests the burden of the pull-through in Coach Stevens' method of rowing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WINTER CREW WORK BROUGHT TO CLOSE | 3/15/1924 | See Source »

Tomorrow afternoon at 4 o'clock, William Earnest Hocking '01, professor of Philosophy in the University, will lecture in Phillips Brooks House on "The Quest of Meaning." Professor Hocking is the author of "The Meaning of God in Human Experience", "Human Nature and Its Remaking", and "Morale and Its Enemies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professor Hocking to Talk at P. B. H. | 3/8/1924 | See Source »

...believe that spring practice makes the "over-emphasis" any less acute than fall practice. And as a practical aid to winning games, it is obvious that fall practice, which conditions the squad when conditioning is valuable, can never be satisfactorily supplanted, even by spring practice in the most deadly earnest. If "over-emphasis" is still undesirable, such practice is unexcusable; and from a utilitarian point of view, it cannot conceivably accomplish what is required...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "IN THE SPRING--" | 3/6/1924 | See Source »

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