Word: endeavor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...examination which would test the student's intelligence and ability to apply his knowledge is a product of the technical schools and certainly is a distinct improvement over the examination in use today in other lines of endeavor. Until examinations are given in such a spirit, until they become useful rather than artificial, until they serve as a test for understanding rather than the capacity to cram, they are one of the gravest defects in America's sieve-like educational system. Penn State Collegian. June...
...they let the unhappy man rest? All these psychiatrists and rowdy critics who endeavor to shred up Poe s soul, have not uttered a single word that would bring before one's eye the beauty, the immensity of a soul in love with beauty"or the melodious music that sings itself in each line of Poe's poetry...
...violent attacks which have been launched against you because of your endeavor to range every available force on the side of prohibition are, in my opinion, wide of the mark, and are based either on hostility to law enforcement, or on ignorance of the precedents which support your action." It was signed by Gifford Pinchot. It referred to the President's executive order permitting state constables to be sworn in as Federal prohibition enforcement agents...
...note what happens as things are, and what might happen if legal research were endowed and organized and carried on as in almost every other field of human endeavor...
While nothing could be more futile than prying into the secrets of organizations whose purposes are obviously innocuous and whose existences supply as much stimulus to exemplary undergraduate endeavor as they do to alleged snobbery and social intrigue, still, curiosity is at least the second strongest of passions and a body of fairly reliable fact has become public property-through indiscreet wives, brazen peepers and sheer accident-with the currency of which the inscrutable ones would not be so foolish as to quarrel. Thus, it is known that one "tomb" is furnished in the acme of masculine comfort...