Word: earnestness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Griswold asserted that the Ivy League's unanimity "bespeaks not only a nation-wide revulsion of the corruption of inter-collegiate athletics but an earnest desire to free higher education from distractions and penalties and focus it upon its vital mission in a troubled world...
...that lay before her. The curly-haired baby Lilibet had caught their heart and their imagination almost from her birth. As time and unpredictable fortune brought her closer to the throne, Elizabeth had proved herself more & more qualified to occupy it. As a rather fat little girl, as an earnest and leggy Girl Guide, as a shy, devoted daughter whose only rebellion took the form of insisting on doing war work like other girls, as a princess in love, as a radiant bride and young mother, Elizabeth grew up before a public which closely watched and freely commented...
...only will you have a chance to report and edit news, sell advertising and design formats for them, and draw cartoons, but you'll meet some world-weary, disillusioned newsmen; earnest and straight-thinking editorial writers; shrewd; aggressive businessmen--and photographers...
...capacity to defend. Last week at the Paris meeting of U.N., Burma, as well as Indo-China, was in mind when representatives of the U.S., Britain and France, one by one, got up to warn that any "Communist aggression in Southeast Asia would . . . require the most urgent and earnest consideration...
...Earnest A. Hooton, professor of Anthropology, said last night that he had "heard" of Mantegazza. He speculated that the book would find its way into the Peabody Museum's collection of such literature, familiarly known as the "Inferno...