Word: earnestness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Five fellowships of approximately $2400 each for one year's study at Oxford and Cambridge will be available for students at the University and at Yale under the Charles and Julia Henry Fund, established "in the earnest hope and desire of cementing the bonds of friendship between the British Empire and the United States...
This week, to make sure that voters knew he was in dead earnest, he released a book that put Candidate Stassen's views on most major political issues down in printer's ink. It was appropriately entitled Where I Stand (Doubleday; $2). Some of the areas where Stassen took his stand...
Stennis staged an unspectacular campaign. But his earnest speeches drew good crowds. He spoke out in favor of "the Southern way of life"; otherwise, he did not mention the subject of white supremacy. Instead, he talked about improving agricultural methods and backing the U.N. Said John Stennis, a teetotaler, a staunch Presbyterian and a family man (two children): "As a Senator ... I want to plow a straight furrow down...
...trilogy he began in 1912 with The Financier, and continued in The Titan (1914). Like all Dreiser's novels, it is much chewed but badly digested: the product of his slow brooding on the injustices of life, clotted with unassimilated gobbets of ideas and massive lumps of earnest social purpose. The Stoic is as dated as a three-day-old cake...
...newest Barnes Bill-his name was attached last fall to legislation restricting labor unions--was put in the same class as the activities of the House un-American Activities Committee by Earnest A. Hooton, professor of Anthropology...