Word: earnestness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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First signs that the sneezing season was at hand came yesterday from Earnest I. Sly ocC, who was overheard repeating mournfully "A rose is a rose is a rose...
...bold baggage was caught with a monk who had rented a hotel room for an unmonkish purpose. On West Lake, that lovely shallow blue pool, girt by green hills, watched by graceful pagodas and crossed by willow-draped causeways and moon-bridges, sampans drift full of rubber-necking tourists, earnest young intellectuals, tired officials and fat merchants on holiday. Lolling in one, with the tolling bells of distant temples in your ears and a book of verse before your eyes, you come a bit closer to understanding Hangchow's appeal-and maybe to understanding China and her people...
...those teenagers, I resent this attitude. TIME'S article described only a small portion of the high-school students, and left out the vast majority who are sane, earnest, and hardworking. . . . More than ever before, today's students are aware of world problems...
...Earnest A. Hooton, professor of Anthropology specializing in the first area, spices his lectures with slightly off-color anecdotes and slang, but still manages to get the subject across thoroughly. A regular in the nation's slick-papered magazines, Professor Hooton makes his courses among the most sought-after in the College...
Theatre Guild on the Air (Sun 10 p.m., ABC). Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, with John Gielgud and other members of the Broadway cast...