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Word: earnest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Importance of Being Earnest...

Author: By Ben A. Cowan, Angela Marek, Diana R. Movius, and Cara New, S | Title: Fall Theater Preview: October | 10/8/1999 | See Source »

After mixed results over the winter break, the team entered Ivy play in earnest...

Author: By Zachary T. Ball, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: IT'S AWESOME, BABY! | 10/6/1999 | See Source »

...apparent reason, the media have become very excited about For Common Things, a book by a Yale law student named Jedediah Purdy. No one else is reading it, but in my earnest effort to join the media elite and thus get a promotion, I too want to write about this book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Defense of Irony | 10/4/1999 | See Source »

Roles up for grabs included parts in "Anything Goes," "HMS Pinafore," "Jesus Christ Superstar," "Faustus" and "The Importance of Being Earnest." Nobody broke a leg, but students said minor injuries were common in the auditions...

Author: By Kirsten G. Studlien, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Semester's Stars Chosen | 9/30/1999 | See Source »

...least) a run. And why not? With more than $12 million in federal matching funds and, perhaps, a chance to be in the presidential debates, the party's nomination is the stage for an angry voice. There's no ideological price of admission. The party, founded by Perot, welcomes earnest centrists eager for entitlement reform as well as anti-new world order conspiracists. So each potential candidate, from the hard left to hard right, can justifiably see it as terra firma...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Take My Party, Please | 9/27/1999 | See Source »

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