Word: earnestness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Exam-wise upperclass veterans had warned 'Cliffe freshmen that finals were no pink tea, and one earnest young scholar took the counsellors at their word...
...poster was one indication of the State Department's earnest intention to meet Communist propaganda against the U.S. in Europe. Under Secretary of State Robert A. Lovett now feels that there is another pertinent way of telling the U.S. story. That, he said, would be the delivery by air to Europe of U.S. newspapers and magazines. In a letter to Wisconsin's Senator Alexander Wiley (one of a number of Congressmen to broach the scheme), Lovett said that the department would ask Congress for funds to finance such a project...
...Shaw merely an iconoclastic critic of humanity's failings who exaggerated for the sake of sensation? Not according to him: like Lear's Fool, he meant every word he said. "The real joke," he once remarked, "is that 1 am in earnest...
...Civil Rights Congress, headed by rich, earnest George Marshall (no kin to the Secretary of State). It has been the courtroom defender of avowed Communists...
...college with only.a wisp of national fame. Its alumni include the presidents of 16 colleges and universities, hundreds of superintendents and principals. This week, on its 60-acre colonnaded campus in Nashville, George Peabody College for Teachers quietly marked its 162nd birthday, and prepared to carry on with the earnest air of an evangelist who knows that there is always another soul to be saved...