Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...submarine. The building up of your navy and merchant marine, resulting in a destroying of the submarine warfare, will remove Germany's last hope of winning the war and I also believe that it will hasten the end of the war if Germany sees that America is really in earnest and preparing in every possible way to use her full strength. This country can end the war by her navy alone before it will be necessary to send ships or soldiers to Europe, but the process will be quickened by the moral effect of America's preparing on all sides...
...Champ '19 would certainly give the impression of being an earnest worker for the Illustrated. As in the "Auto Show" number, he has contributed two articles--both unusually interesting and calling for no small degree of of research. In the first, "Harvard Racing Shells," he traces the development of the shell from 1846, when the first Harvard crew rowed in the clumsy lap-streak barge "Oneida," to the efficient shells of today--those which lower records, on the Thames at New London. In "From Watch Hill to R. O. T. C.," the part that the University has played in former...
...shade, with subtly adapted tone-qualities and suggestions of emotional depth that have come to expect from the best choral societies and professional choruses. Such flexibility and sympathy bespeak a mature view of life in general and familiarity with a large musical repertory in particular, which even fairly earnest students cannot usually attain in their late teens or early twenties...
...There is no doubt that earnest diplomatic persuasion has been exercised to induce China to break off relations. The United States minister has been urging the Chinese government to take this step, and one may guess that Great Britain, France and Japan have not been less urgent in the same direction...
...hearing. "The Verge of War," by Mr. Rogers, is in the main a sober account of the necessities of the present situation. It is marred by occasional exaggerations and the style is a little too elaborate and rhetorical throughout. The editorials, which counsel calmness and independent reflection together with earnest preparation for all eventualities, are sound in substance, but here and there awkward in exposition. The reviewer is not sure whether the cleft infinitive ("to merely talk") is to be regarded as an oversight or as a declaration of independence...