Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...went to Yalta with Roosevelt, carrying his earnest optimism with him. He headed the U.S. delegation to the San Francisco birth of U.N., which he like many others thought "would fulfill the hopes of millions of peoples in ... the world." He left the secretaryship, but stayed in Government as U.S. representative to the U.N. Security Council...
...signify that the peoples of the world are of one mind in their determination to solve their common problems . . ." He also called for adoption of the U.S. plan for international atomic energy control, which Russia has been blocking. It was a nice celebration, and deserved the world's earnest best wishes; it would need them...
When World War I broke out, no one responded more fervently to the cause of France than pretty, earnest Kathleen Burke of London. First she raised $4,000,000 for Allied hospitals, then she went to France as a war nurse, was wounded at Verdun, gassed at Valenciennes, and made 18 Atlantic crossings during the height of the submarine peril. When the war was over, she had won a permanent place in the hearts of Frenchmen. They called her "The Angel of France...
...more winter sports squads are working out, but only informally at present. A dozen wrestlers are at it in the Blockhouse, but official practice won't start in earnest until after the Yale game, when Coach Butch Jordan is freed of his football duties. Also, 25 fencers are working out. Official practice here doesn't start until the end of November, for the first match isn't until February...
Albion got an appointment to Princeton the same day he took his General Exams here, and soon was made an Assistant Dean in charge of Flunking. He interspersed earnest warnings to errant Prinetonians with a couple of courses in military and naval science, and eventually worked his way to a position teaching his favorite subject, maritime history...