Word: earnestness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...SANITY, i.e., no bats in belfry. ††† "Earnest money got by leaving deposits on old clothes" in five letters. Answer: DYEST. Ximenes explained that deposits on old clothes refers to dye; to get money is to earn; earn out of earnest leaves...
Throughout Atkinson's long, arduous career, he had been threatened with dismissal, but no one took these threats seriously because Cambridge was reforming in earnest and the city's expenditures had to be slashed, but more important Atkinson was backed up by a maority of the "good government" councillors--those endorsed by the Cambridge Civic Assocition...
Last week the company started on a change that was almost as important as the one Bill Grace made some 98 years ago: it began in earnest to turn itself into a chemical company. As a starter borrowed $35 million from four big insurance companies to build, as one part of a wide-sweeping expansion program a $20 million plant in Memphis, Tenn.' to produce fertilizers by petrochemical processes. Said Grace's 39-year-old president, Joseph Peter Grace Jr.: "In 20 years, W. R. Grace may well be predominantly a chemical company...
...mistrusted a presidential candidate whose main claim to office seemed "the fact that he split rails when he was a boy." Later he ranted against the evacuation of Fort Sumter: "The bird of our country is a debilitated chicken, disguised in eagle feathers." But once the war began in earnest, he was quick to sense Lincoln's rare qualities and wrote of him with affection...
Throughout Atkinson's long, arduous career, he had been threatened with dismissal, but no one took these threats seriously because Cambridge was reforming in earnest and the city's expenditures had to be slashed, but more important Atkinson was backed up by a majority of the "good government" councillors--those endorsed by the Cambridge Civic Association...