Word: earnestness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rounded up the Townsend Plan vote. "Buyer" was the Republican candidate for Governor, blue-blooded Leverett Saltonstall. "Seller" was William H. McMasters, 64, of Cambridge, who looks something like old Dr. Francis E. Townsend. Published "price": a promise in Mr. Saltonstall's platform to make "an earnest effort to have this bill [Townsend General Welfare Act*] brought before Congress at the earliest possible moment." Though the Townsend Plan is officially cold-shouldered by the Administration...
With seven Varsity boats taking to the water daily, Bolles assisted by Freshman mentor Harvey Love and Fifties coach Bert Haines has begun an earnest campaign to build up material for the spring races...
...Earnest A. Booton, professor of Anthropology and Curator of Somatology, has been named to give the second series of Lowell Lectures, and will give eight talks on "Crime and the Man," beginning on Friday. The discussions will be given on Fridays and Tuesdays at 8 o'clock in the evening...
...Columbia Medical Center in 1930. Three years later he got a Ph.D. in Anthropology from the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. From 1933 to 1935 he was a National Research Council fellow in Anthropology. The next year he was statistical and anthropometric research assistant to Earnest A. Hooton, Professor of Anthropology. For the past year he was research assistant in the Fatigue Laboratory...
...China with a plane full of cholera serum. His reel is sensational because, in making it, Mr. Gable forces Miss Loy to wreck her plane. (In one of the takes for this scene, Miss Loy was trapped in the burning plane's cabin, had to be rescued in earnest by Mr. Gable.) Apologetic but not penitent, Gable pretends to destroy the film. It remains to plague him through frame after frame of realistic action. By the time Myrna Loy has saved Gable's job by direct appeal to his boss, snubbed his arch rival, quarreled with...