Word: earnest
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...varsity will have several more warmup contests before Ivy League play begins in earnest. The schedule: Dec. 12 at M.I.T. Dec. 16 Northeastern Dec. 17 Tufts Jan. 1-2 Poinsettia Tournament Jan. 8 at Columbia Jan. 9 at Cornell Jan. 13 at Dartmouth Jan. 16 Dartmouth Feb. 5 Cornell Feb. 6 Columbia Feb. 9 Boston College Feb. 12 Yale Feb. 13 Brown Feb. 19 at Penn Feb. 20 at Princeton Feb. 26 Princeton Feb. 27 Penn. Mar. 4 at Brown Mar. 5 at Yale
Opposition to the disclaimer affidavit, which loan recipients must sign, was cited by both universities as the reason for the action. In a letter to Lawrence G. Derthick, U.S. Commissioner of Education, explaining the University decision, President Pusey stated that, "It is our earnest concern, while the matter of continuing or expunging section 1001 (f) (1) is still under consideration, to take no action which might possibly be considered as approving the Act as it now stands." He pointed out that a bill which would remove the disclaimer affidavit requirement from NDEA is now in Congressional committee...
...sometimes happens when TV programs reach for quality, some turned out to be merely earnest bores. On NBC, the Hallmark production of Maxwell Anderson's Winterset proved that the living-room screen can be an embarrassing setting for characters who speak stilted blank verse (with Hamlet echoes) and live amid the topical excitement of another decade. Playhouse go (CBS) chose to grapple with second-rate Shaw, and even an excellent cast-Robert Morley, Claire Bloom, Siobhan McKenna-could not cram the rapid-fire sex and social relations of Misalliance into a really meaningful hour and a half...
...disappointments were Princeton's Mike Kingston and Penn's Earnest Tracy. Kingston, who won the Harvard-Yale-Princeton meet last week, finished 26th, and Tracy, first against the Crimson and Columbia earlier this season, could do no better than 32nd...
Behind the optimism of Europe and the sober bankers' outlook in Washington lay a momentous shift in free world relationships. After 13 years and $40 billion of U.S. aid, Europe has caught up economically. As a result, the U.S. finds that it must do some earnest rethinking of its foreign economic policy...