Word: endeavor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...legislative body. Broadly speaking, every magazine article dealing with a public question, every editorial, sermon, or speech that discusses a legislative measure and expresses views with respect to the principle involved in the proposed legislation or the method adopted to put the principle into effect, is an endeavor "to influence legislation." But the special work of a lobbyist is generally supposed to be to exert influence by secret methods and for special compensation. Apparently, you refer to this aspect of the matter when you say, "And Mr. Marvin was a lobbyist in Washington, for the wool trade." I have never...
Again, Senator Fess has ever been a Coolidge man, a "Coolidge-anyway" man. Only once has he endeavored to dispel the impression that he is the Coolidge spokesman in the Senate, and he later confessed that that one endeavor was only a political charade. The object of the "Coolidge-anyway" movement has been to block Candidate Hoover with uninstructed delegates and its aim, according to pessimists, is another "hotel room" nomination. The choice of Keynoter Fess seemed like a peep through the hotel room keyhole...
...after shaking the hand and naming the name of every member of the Delaware Kiwanis Club. Governor and Senator he had been. Anti-Saloon League champion and lion of small-town Ohioans, he remained. President he was not destined to be but he died at the peak of his endeavor in that direction. Ohio wept him. The Senate mourned him. The country noticed that he was gone...
...endeavor to secure such speakers, the Committee has been fortunate in engaging several distinguished lecturers. On October 18, Professor Harry E. Barnes of Smith College delivered a very interesting address on "The Ethics of International Relations." Professor Barnes is a widely known authority in his field of history and sociology...
...have changed our method in two ways. We are using a new system of instruction that amounts to the abandonment of the case system. This may be called the situation method, for we endeavor to place the student in a position covering many cases, where he will frequently find himself in practice, and also to bring to bear on the situation various rules he will need. Cases are used only to give specific illustrations of a given position. This may give a better preparation for actual practice than memorizing great numbers of individual cases and names...