Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vatican City the Papal Secretary of State, His Eminence Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli, meanwhile held repeated earnest councils with Papal statesmen. The semi-official newsorgan Osservatore Romano announced indirectly that the Holy See had not known of what Cardinal Innitzer was about to do. Later in Vienna the Cardinal explicitly denied reports of his having acted on instructions from the Supreme Pontiff...
After more than two years of earnest fact-finding and many months of laborious lawmaking, the British Government last week breathed a sigh of accomplishment. They had just passed what they believed to be holeproof legislation to replace the punctured, lately-expired Cinematograph Films...
...Gilliland, president of Bell General Pipe Line Co. of Gladewater, and 24 others, most of them employes of Bell General and its subsidiaries. Bell General is considered the largest independent pipe line in the East Texas field, which indicated the Connally Act was at last to be invoked in earnest. By last week 23 of the 25 had posted bond. One of the other two was variously reported as being in Spain and the Samoa Islands...
Expert opinion offered by Earnest A. Hooton, professor of Anthropology and curator of Somatology indicates that the man was probably 40 years old when he died. Kidder explained that it was the custom in those days to keep the mummy lying around for as long as four years before he was finally buried in a hole in the ground, covered with sand...
...swung at a Communist, the Communist shot him, company guards shot the Communist. Ensued a terrific free-for-all which seemed like fine convincing stuff to the audience. And it was. Carried away by the action, the mob had suddenly taken violent sides, started swinging at each other in earnest. When the curtain came down, three limp actors were stretched out on the stage...