Word: earnestness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...production, "The Stymie," had its first public performance in the club theatre last evening, the performance being complimentary to members of the Union. The customary "first-night" nervousness and indecision were agreeably lacking and the entire play proceeded with a smoothness arguing earnest and devoted rehearsal...
...report at the Locker Building at 4 o'clock, ready for road work. Regular practice will take place every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday afternoons at 4 o'clock, and it is absolutely necessary that all candidates report regularly, as the hard work of the season now begins in earnest. Coach Donovan will be in charge, and if any of the shot-putters and hammer-throwers want to report at that time, he will coach them also. Meanwhile, the regular practice in the Cage will continue for the other...
...other cause than the laws of physics, and by quacks who delude the ignorant and curious because it is an easy means of income for them; consequently the public, once bitten, is twice shy; it is interested in, but not receptive to new ideas which appear in earnest and apparently quite sincere investigation and experiment on this subject. The acceptance of this gift means that Harvard continues to take her enlightened stand in her policy of progressive investigation, a policy which has recently given her such tangible results in the field of medicine. And the gift itself makes possible effective...
...special study of these insects; the various museums where other specialists are studying animals, reptiles and plants with a view to finding out the laws of heredity and transportation of diseases; and the first-class laboratories of the Medical School, where such eminent physicians as Doctors Theobald Smith, Earnest, Councilman, Tyzzer, Wolbach and Rosenau have been investigating the subject of pathology and preventive medicine...
...wealth. We can already produce far more efficiently--poorly as we may do it still--than we can see the product safely, and finally into the hands of him to whom it justly belongs. The latter phase of the problem would certainly seem to be worth careful, constructive, and earnest attention. Moreover, it could hardly fail to increase production at the same time that it secured juster distribution of the results...