Word: earnestness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mayor-Elect Lizarralde, 37, is a big, earnest man who talks quietly and infrequently. One of Guatemala's top civil engineers, Lizarralde had built streets, sewers and a sound reputation in Guatemala City. In politics, he was a blue-eyed innocent who had never run for office before. During his campaign he took a firm stand against letting the city "fall into the hands of grafting Red demagogues," got out to meet the voters informally, and let others do most of the speechmaking...
Villanova College on Philadelphia's Main Line has only a small (10,000 seats) stadium of its own, but it takes its football in deadly earnest. This year it won five out of eight games on a rugged road schedule that included Army, Alabama, Kentucky, Houston, Boston College and Louisiana State. The player who helped Villanova snap back each Saturday was its 60-minute iron man, Co-Captain Domenic ("Nick") Liotta, a steamrolling (5 ft. 11 in., 220 Ibs.) guard from Everett, Mass...
...there, as many scientists insist, an unbridgeable gulf between modern science and revealed religion? From Pope Pius XII last week came an earnest, carefully documented answer: no. In the latest physics and astronomy, said the Pope, "true science discovers God in an everincreasing degree-as though God were waiting behind every door." In particular, he told the Pontifical Academy of Sciences,* the proofs of God's existence which St. Thomas Aquinas advanced in the 13th Century are constantly being buttressed anew by the discoveries of science...
...started selling papers (the Cleveland Press), later worked as a janitor at the high school until he graduated, taught country school during the winters to pay for his summer schooling at Wooster college, a Presbyterian school noted for its earnest emphasis on hard work and scholarship. Wooster was full of young men equally determined to get ahead. Ben ate at a boarding house where Robert E. Wilson, now chairman of Standard Oil of Indiana, waited on table, and played on a baseball team (the "Never-Sweats") with Karl T. Compton, now chairman of the corporation of M.I.T., and Karl...
This is the reflection of Frederick L. Stagg '17, Research Fellow in Physical Anthropology, who is currently engaged in a study of the relation between a man's physical build and his career. Working closely with Earnest Hooton, Professor of Anthropology, Stagg has been doing research work on body types based on nude photographs of undergraduates who attended Harvard from 1876 to 1912. Dr. Dudley A. Sargent, who headed physical training at Harvard for forty years, took the photographs and kept a complete medical record, including physical measurements and biographical data. Stagg has been spending most of his time correlating...