Word: earnestness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...next on the list for conversion by Missionary Mussolini. Significantly Poland's pro-Nazi Foreign Minister Joseph Beck three weeks ago was in the Rumanian capital to explain that "Rumania is necessary to Poland's security because of Russia's nearness." Foreign Minister Beck, in earnest conversations with King Carol, sought to renew and put teeth into the 1921 Polish-Rumanian Treaty. If he succeeded, the Rome-Berlin axis would be completely buffered on the east except for Czechoslovakia, satellite of "Marxist" France...
...campaign has been going on in the graduate schools since the middle of last week, and will start in earnest in the Houses this week...
Music is real, music is earnest to Mischa Mischakoff. He teaches 22 pupils at the American Conservatory of Music, runs his own string quartet. He plays the piano almost as well as the violin. Students dread Mischakoff's caustic tongue but know that, at parties, he is a good fellow. A bachelor, he likes swimming, plays ping-pong gladly and badly, appears with hair mussed and bushy, clothes drooping as though too big for him. As a violin trader he is ready, shrewd, almost always wins. He regrets leaving Chicago but says he could not resist...
Only implication of the issue of Naziism in education was in the last paragraph of Greene's letter: "It is our earnest wish that all universities may survive the vicissitudes of these troubled times, and that the people of all countries will not fail ot recognize that in the freedom and fraternity of the scholarly world lies the surest hope for the preservation of all that is best in our civilization...
When British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden signed the Anglo-Egyptian treaty in the magnificent "Locarno Room" of the British Foreign Office (TIME, Sept. 7) he intimated that Britain was no longer Egypt's boss but her "partner." As an earnest of good will the British Government promised to urge at Geneva admission of Egypt to the League of Nations, promised to ask eleven other States, which like Britain have long enjoyed extraterritorial rights ("capitulations") for their citizens in Egypt, to surrender them...