Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...middle ages, a knight did not attempt to carry off the honors of a tournament for the intrinsic value of the prize he won. What he wanted was the applause of the populace, and more than that the congratulations of his particular friends. With no one to cheer him on, no one to care whether he won or lost, there would have been nothing to force him to his utmost. So it is today. Everyone can perform heroic deeds if only someone to whom he wishes to be a here is looking...
There is nothing in the world more elusive than culture. One cannot define or circumscribe it, for it has no precise bounds. One cannot analyze it, for its components are infinite. One cannot describe it, for it is Protean in shape. An attempt to encompass its meaning in words is like trying to seize the air in the hand, when one finds it is everywhere except within one's grasp. Culture is like what the ancient Hebrews called wisdom in that it has no fixed habitation, but is all-pervading and imponderable in its essence. Everyone who has experienced...
...should not be too closely akin to the subject which will engross attention in the chief occupation of life; because any direct professional knowledge that can be obtained in college is trifling compared with what can be acquired in a far shorter period in a professional school, and the attempt to obtain it crowds out some other subject that will probably never be studied at a later time...
...week in which to judge their men it is not to be expected that the selection of the first squad has been correct in all cases. Therefore, for a week and a half squad B will be run merely as a second Freshman squad, and no immediate attempt will be made to organize dormitory teams. Thus all men now delegated to the seconds will have ample opportunity to prove their worth and be taken...
...Some Problems in Market Distribution," by A. W. Shaw, Instructor in the Business School, is an attempt to apply principles similar to those of "scientific management" in business to the problems of selling...