Word: earnestness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trip for the Crimson, along with four new men who qualified in rounds played earlier in the term. The five veterans--Captain Bob Matson, Herb Mee, Dave Gorman, Hugh Nawn, and Jack Denton--will probably prove the regular starters for the Crimson when the season gets under way in earnest in the middle of April...
...tonight and help us! Are you ready for peace in this world? You are the people, the men behind desks ... in the factories . . . You are the housewives." The Press-Scimitar put Mr. Orgill's message on its front page. In a drizzly rain one night last week 300 earnest Memphians went to the Parkview Hotel to see what they could do about peace in the world...
...gagged over the march of the Japs into Manchuria in 1931, as the 1932 Disarmament Conference ended in a fiasco, as the London Economic Conference wheezingly expired. He listened as the hot winds of Naziism roared through Germany. The underlying theme of the history which he reported in long, earnest dispatches to the Times was always the same-the disunity and ineffectiveness of the democracies in meeting the crises of history. He was sure that he was attending the burial of another civilization...
Then the 80 men get to work is earnest, as Ted Schmitt, one of the assistants, led them through 15 minutes of calisthenics. Group work followed, with Norm Shepard and Josh Williams handling the backs, Schmitt and Joe Maras, linemen, Henry Lamar, ends, and Jordan going from group to group...
...role only once removed from Claudia, Actress McGuire plays a hopeless romantic who fastens on an earnest young doctor (William Lundigan) and plots an ideal marriage, complete with fireside evenings together. The courtship is punctuated with emergency calls, the wedding is almost interrupted by the telephone, and the honeymoon just happens to dovetail with a medical convention ("How," asks the bride, "did you choose Detroit?"). Dorothy soon finds that she can share her husband's work even less than his time. In the first flush of pregnancy, she is appalled to learn that he passes off her symptoms with...