Word: earnestness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...examination," as Robert Taft called it, had begun in earnest. It involved the size of the armed forces, the drafting of young men, the quality of weapons; it encompassed the policies of the nation in the U.N., in Europe, in the Far East...
Everybody for the U.S. Before this noisy, argumentative, but earnest body, Harry Truman appeared this week. Two days before he faced them, he cautiously met with a delegation of leaders to brief them on his State of the Union speech. Despite the heavy weather rolling plainly over the horizon, Leader McFarland came away from the conference with a hopeful statement: "On both sides of the aisle, members of Congress are working for the nation as a whole...
...approval of Judge E. Thomas Schettino, Rutgers University's famed Microbiologist Selman Abraham Waksman, who has earned close to $400,000 in royalties from the drug, last week acknowledged that his former laboratory assistant Albert Schatz is "entitled to credit legally and scientifically as co-discoverer of streptomycin." Earnest young (30) Dr. Schatz in turn retracted his charge that Waksman had practiced "fraud and duress" in depriving him of a share in its profits...
...symbolism of Blume's picture-a huge, broken rock with scaffolding to the left of it and ruins to the right-is as obscure as his brushwork is precise. Blume, who at 44 looks rather like a dead-earnest Danny Kaye, believes "the rock symbol is bound to be enigmatic" (TIME, Jan. 17,1949). His painting's popularity, Blume confessed last week, had him "very baffled and certainly very pleased...
Great Capabilities. With a change in heart and will, France could put 20 divisions in the field by 1951's end, and another 20 by 1952's end. By mobilizing its industry in earnest, it could contribute 5,000 fighter planes within two years. It could, in fact, keep a million men under arms without crippling its economy or imposing any grave hardship on its people...