Word: earnestness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...physical analysis of 2,631 Harvard graduates has helped to substantiate Sheldon's theory of body-types. Sheldon suggested that varying proportions of fat content, muscle content, and body density in individuals indicate different behavior characteristics. In their recent study, Frederick Stagg, Research Fellow in Physical Anthropology, and Professor Earnest A. Hooton find that a definite relationship exists between the pattern of a man's life and his physical make...
...fish, rice and camp stools, outside the great, grey Korakuen Stadium 30 hours before the first game against the Yomiuri Giants, the all-Japan champions. The Americans won, 7 to 0 but the Japanese didn't seem to mind. "The Americans will obviously continue the winning," explained one earnest, bespectacled university student, "because of the legs and arms which are longer...
Pastor Charles W. Phillips of Des Moines' First Unitarian Church testified that many theologians are in "complete disagreement" over Christianity's fundamental principles. Four more ministers-two Lutherans, a Baptist and an Episcopalian-did their earnest best, and made confusion worse confounded...
...inconsistent. While he proposes that the alumni govern what professors teach, he insists that "a student (would) remain the final arbiter under the system I propose. Under no circumstances should he be shielded from the thought and writings of men with different values; but the professor should do his earnest and intellectual best to expose the shortcomings and fallacies of such value judgements...
Alhough the German government is in favor of contributing troops to a European army, it is equally earnest about unifying the country. If a unified Germany gave troops for allied defense, the Western front would reach the Polish border. Neither the Russians nor the Allies would permit this situation. The German Social Democrats, furthermore, will object to the rearmament plan as it now stands because it closely resembles the Pleven Plan which they have always opposed. As a result, Bonn may face a serious political crisis before rearmament is settled...