Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Frank Tyng won a stormy 12 to 8 match over Tech-man Earnest Miklau, and Dan Ray took the fourth straight bout for the Crimson when he defeated Wilbur Haggerty 6 to 2. The grapplers lost decisions in the 121-pound class where Harry Schless was edged by one point and in the 165-pound division where Tech ace Whit Mauzy won by a 9 to 2 margin...
...World War I Secretary of War and famed Wilsonian, wrote to Brooks Emeny, a young (then 33), Princeton-trained instructor in foreign affairs at Yale University. It was an offer of a hard job: to put vigor and educational purpose into Cleveland's limping Foreign Affairs Council. Slender, earnest Brooks Emeny took it on. He found a membership of 300 women, 50 men holding only four meetings a year...
Minor Mission. Author Roberts is best known as a novelist with a vengeance, or at least a mission: in Rabble in Arms he argued the forgotten merits of Benedict Arnold, in Wiswell he made an earnest case for colonial Loyalists and Tories. In Lydia, the mission is a minor one. Roberts' main aim seems to be to expose the incompetence of Tobias Lear, onetime private secretary to George Washington...
...Stricken Land is a history of his Puerto Rican years, of the friends he made and the pounding he took from his enemies ("maliciousness unique even in my experience"), of some of his views on Caribbean policy and on colonial policy in general. A fat, rambling, earnest, occasionally angry, sometimes eloquent book, it is full of Olympian judgments, professional footnotes, diary extracts and side remarks on subjects as remote as the writings of Vincent Sheean or the progress of the Pacific naval war. But the main theme is clearly and realistically developed. It may shock the kind of complacent liberal...
...only one of the girls-dark, earnest Wauneita McConnell, 29-has been permitted to administer the sacraments, though Ruth Greenwood, a preacher's daughter, expects to be licensed by the bishop this month. All students plan to enter the Methodist ministry or church work of some sort...