Word: earnestness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Center. Last spring the Council moved the results of its poll out of theory into practice and placed itself solidly behind the building of a Center as a war memorial. Shortly after the Crimson and the Alumni Bulletin joined the Council, and the long road was entered upon in earnest...
...first National Assembly of the Fourth Republic. The prospect: a continuation of the present coalition government, in which the MRP (Catholic progressives) now leads the Communists by a slight margin, with the Socialists third. The plain people were not much agitated; the winter winds were beginning to blow in earnest around their scantily heated houses. They were much more interested in coal than in coalition...
...Fabian Society had really been founded 62 years ago, but, because of the war, it delayed the celebration. The postponement was in character; Fabius Cunctator (The Delayer) had worn out Hannibal in the Second Punic War* by what Livy called "masterly inactivity." The earnest young men & women of the 1880s who believed that socialism (not the Marxist brand) would come with what Webb called the "inevitability of gradualness" took Fabius as their exemplar. They considered violent revolution unnecessary, believed their Utopia could be achieved by "permeating" existing institutions...
With a nearly complete Varsity squad on hand, Coach Dick Harlow began preparing in earnest yesterday for the Crimson's battle with Dartmouth on Saturday. The only two first-stringers busy with hour exams were Howie Houston and Nick Rodis, but the rest of the week will find about four "A" team members hitting the books every...
Revolution in the ranks of the undergraduate ectomorphs has been the result of a recently published poem, "The Ectomorph," by Earnest A. Hooton, professor of Anthropology, in which women contemplating marriage were warned to "beware of the ectomorphic mate...