Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...breaking off of relations is serious business. You cannot treat the situation as though everything would go on exactly as before. Twenty-four powers have recognized Russia following our lead. We shall be completely isolated in this respect in a Europe which is full of trouble...
...sufficient number of times at a speed in the neighborhood of 100 miles per hour. This year the winner of the 500-mile "classic" on the two and a half mile track is a youngster comparatively unknown, a dirt track specialist-George Souders, 27, who spends his more serious moments studying mechanical engineering at Purdue University in Lafayette, Ind. In a Duesenberg special, he covered the 500 miles of bricks at an average speed of 97.54 miles per hour. He made only two brief stops. He was rewarded with the $20,000 first prize, with an additional...
Especially is this true of the donor. With the decorum of true philanthropy, George F. Baker has allowed this monument to rise, has cooperated with Harvard in what to many still remain an educational novelty, but to the serious and sincere few is a significant advance in that ill charted march, made by that misunderstood plodder, education...
...arms, hurl us down, and stamp upon us--"Listen to me, base mortal, or perish." And what a saving grace is his gift of humor, just as important in art as in daily life. Beethoven never tears a passion to tatters, never protests too much, can be serious and truly impressive without becoming solemn or pontificial. Before Beethoven, music had been practically limited to the expression of joy and sorrow in a broad sense of these terms. With his inborn whimsicality and with his philosophy, akin to that of Shakspere, that nothing is more deadly than to take ourselves...
Last year he never quite reached his best times, but this was in a large measure due to a bothersome leg muscle injury which, while not serious, prevented consistent performances...