Word: earnest
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Professor Dodd and his fellow translators have aimed at objects in an airy height; but despite the no doubt earnest efforts of those literary advisers, the language of the New English Bible: New Testament is all that the churchmen have sought to avoid...
...Shadows. Earnest amateurs improvise an imperfect but powerful work of folk art in a tawdry Manhattan setting...
...Shadows. Earnest amateurs improvise an imperfect but powerful work of folk art in a tawdry Manhattan setting...
...Shadows. Earnest amateurs improvise an imperfect but powerful work of folk art in a tawdry New York setting...
...jump, a 16-ft. pole vault, or a 100-yd. dash run in less than 9 sec. Slender (155 Ibs., 5 ft. 11 in.) for a swimmer, Clark plans to put on twelve more pounds "in the right places" for added strength. An amphibian prodigy who started swimming in earnest at the age of four, Schoolboy Clark is confident that his 100-yd. record will be broken, but he hopes to be the one to do it. Says he: "I certainly don't think I've reached my fastest...