Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Coach Silvers will return to Cambridge on March 1 and the rehearsals will begin in earnest on that date. Until then there will be only reading of the parts and a narrowing down of prospective candidates...
...preparation for the 1924 baseball campaign will begin in earnest next Monday afternoon with a meeting for all candidates at the Locker Building, according to an announcement made last night by Manager Pantaleoni. Daily workouts for infield and outfield candidates will begin on that date, and the batterymen, whose duties have not yet been arduous, will begin a period of more strenuous work...
...Englander. The Equity Players make another earnest attempt to score, but again fumble the ball. Here is a disorderly study of a New England mother who lets conscience be her guide once too often. Early in life she forgives her husband his daily embezzlement. She helps him make restitution and get an opportunity to steal again. Under her plastic indulgence he smashes a bank, smashes himself, drives a friend to suicide, becomes the complete flop. After his death his grown son peculates too; heredity extends to bond thefts...
...accustomed to look upon the new world as a philosophical colony of the old world", said Professor Stein. "But just as this former English colony freed itself from its mother-country, so again the American spirit begins in right earnest not only to demand its intellectual equality and recognition of its having come of age but also to claim a certain leadership...
Fighting in real earnest between Federals and rebels was reported from Mexico during the past week...