Word: earnestness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bombs. Then earnest Allen Crow, president of the Detroit Economic Club, made a speech. He began by mentioning that Detroit had provided a home for thousands born in Russia. "As to how many there are now of these, it is rather difficult to determine until we know just how many of the countries of Europe are to be taken over, assimilated, absorbed or dominated by the Soviet Government...
...Russians were deeply disappointed in their Austrian comrades. When Clark and Konev recently discussed Austrian politicians, the name of Austria's lanky, long-haired Communist Boss Ernst Fischer came up. Said Clark, half jesting, half in earnest: "I don't like him because he is a Communist." Said Konev: "That's fine, I don't like him either because he is an Austrian Communist...
...George, when not off resting in Italy or planning new marble fountains for the Sitwell estate in Derbyshire, would give Osbert earnest paternal lectures: "Unless you learn to play ping-pong properly, you can never hope to be a Leader of Men." Sacheverell was ruled by governesses and tutors to within an inch of his life. At four he was examining the architecture of Kensington Palace; at ten he was writing letters about Umbrian vases, Turkish armor, Stone Age remains...
...Lake, N.Y., in August 1944, he was to U.S. eyes the First Filipino in more senses than one. Among his countrymen he had critics who deplored his dictatorial ways, but to thousands of other Filipinos he ranked with the great patriots. The Good Fight is Quezon's autobiography. Earnest, mild in its verdicts, limited in range but now & then surprisingly revealing, it is his profession of faith in the U.S., his story of how a boy from the out-of-the-way Luzon barrio of Baler, Tayabas Province, rose in the world...
...should be emphasized that there still are honest and liberal forces within the Kuomintang capable of undertaking reform. Shanghai's new mayor, K. C. Wu, appears to be making an earnest effort to improve the situation in Shanghai. Wu's program to cut rice prices this week brought the price down in two days from 60,000 to 51,000 dollars a picul at week's end, and resulted in the arrest of" Jen Hsin-ya, section chief of the Shanghai Food Commissioner's Office, on charges of irregularities in the discharge of his duties...