Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chase, if you are so earnest an advocate of the liberal concept of the public interest, you are a member of the wrong political party. Nonetheless, I am bound to say that the Republican Party is fortunate in having so able an apologist. It needs the best. --Derek Torrey Winans '61, President, Harvard Young Democratic Club...
...time to get back in business again, and last week Francis S. Chase, dean of Chicago's new graduate department of education, announced the program for the first 100 students, due to enter next September. His prospectus makes plain that on its second try, Chicago is in dead earnest about producing teachers who know their specialties, scholars who know how to teach...
Johnson then took Ike on one arm, Dirksen on the other, led them into the Chinese Room for the festivities. The President stayed and chatted for about 20 minutes-part of it in earnest conversation with Vice President Nixon and Secretary of Labor James Mitchell (subject: steel)-greeted Mrs. David McDonald, wife of the steelworkers' union boss. (Cooed Rosemary McDonald to Pat Nixon: "The settlement was our loveliest anniversary present...