Word: earnestness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...increasing concern with words like "balance," the national college," and the "scholar-athlete" indicates the importance of the admissions problem, which since the war, has resolved itself into an earnest nationwide rivalry to recruit the country's most outstanding students An especially keen competition has developed between Princeton, Yale Dartmouth, and Harvard all of which are seeking the elusive scholar-athlete is evidenced by certain facts: Yale drew a record number of applicants Spring. Princeton's Committee on admissions found its selection task "the most difficult in history": Dartmouth officials chose 760 men from an unprecedented number of 3.511 applicants...
Many televiewers wince, talk back or leave the room during TV commercials. But not earnest, 41-year-old Dick Stark. He sits on the edge of his chair, wide-eyed and alert to every move and inflection of the TV salesman. His interest is professional and his appraisal is that of a connoisseur. For when he is not listening to commercials, Dick Stark is delivering them. He sells Chesterfield cigarettes on TV's Perry Como Show and Gangbusters, Amm-i-dent toothpaste on Danger, Camay soap on radio's Pepper Young's Family. "Television has been good...
Malcolm McCorquodale, an earnest lawyer from Houston, set the pattern of the Ikemen's plea. Said he: "For 20 years we Republicans have extended a welcome to all Democrats to join the Republican Party and make Texas a two-party state. On May 6, history was made. We had more people attending our conventions than the Democrats had, and you all know that we should be glad to get them. The struggle to exclude these newcomers is led by a few leaders who don't want them . . . The issue is simple honesty...
...Chimney. Two days later, the government began cracking back in earnest. While armed police stood ready to block any demonstration at the lie de la Cite, where Duclos was being held, other police searched the Duclos home. Next day, the police raided Communist headquarters all over France. As 400 cops leaped from vans outside the massive stone building marked Comite Central du Parti Communisté in Paris, three lookouts slammed the door. A moment later, dense smoke began pouring from the chimney. By the time the police broke in half an hour later, most of the evidence was gone. Other...
Moores quickly unloaded a rubber raft, paddled out into the lake and started fishing in earnest. Says he: "I made five casts and I hooked five trout, none of which could have weighed less than eight pounds. There's no other place in the world you can do that. Of the five, I boated three. The biggest was a 25-pounder and the smallest was twelve. And I got them all in just over an hour. I sat there looking at those beautiful big trout and thinking of all the years I've spent boasting about an eight...