Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...billingsgate is a devoutly religious-and highly litigious-Quaker who has never been known to fire a shot, lift his fist, or even raise his soft voice in anger. Andrew Russell Pearson is a tall, tweedy, disarmingly mild-mannered fellow, with thinning light brown hair, a sparse mustache and earnest mien; he looks like a shy, quizzical cow college professor-except for his wary blue eyes. The mild manner camouflages a tough, diamond-hard core. And his casual clothes, his innocuously small-town look serve him well in Washington's lower echelons, where many of his tipsters work...
...England men tend to be more muscular than Texans, while Protestants are thinner than Catholics. The Army disclosed those findings yesterday after studying a report submitted last summer by Earnest A. Hooton, professor of Anthropology...
There'll be more Crimson teams operating in Cambridge this week than you can shake a cliche at the winter sports squads get going in earnest. The varsity squash team starts things off this afternoon when it meet the Harvard Club of Boston, and tomorrow night, the varsity and freshman basketball teams both open their home seasons against Northeastern at the Block-house, and the hockey team goes after Brown bear at the Arena...
There'll be more Crimson teams operating in Cambridge this week than you can shake a cliche at as the winter sports squads get going in earnest. The varsity squash team starts things off this afternoon when it meets the Harvard Club of Boston, and tomorrow night, the varsity and freshman basketball teams both open their home seasons against North-eastern at the Blockhouse, and the hockey team goes after Brown bear at the Arena...
Joan of Arc. Ingrid Bergman in a big, expensive, earnest retelling of a great story. Technicolor (TIME...