Word: endeavor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...endeavor seems to have been to make it not an organization for unbiased inquiry on the facts, but one for preparing such recommendations as are known in advance to be acceptable to the party and the Administration in power...
...Those who conceived the broadened scope of the Red Cross and those who have brought the work to its present state of efficiency quite properly, I believe, should receive no small share of credit for the extension of the nation's beneficence in so many fields of endeavor...
Discussing the endeavor under way in various colleges of the East to relate football properly to the curriculum, the Cornell Daily Sun asks this question: "Is it the beginning of a general movement, or but a flurry which will die away, leaving the undergraduate world in as complacent enthusiasm about the pigskin as before...
Next day the court came to a decision. Admiral Jones read a statement discharging Captain Foley and exonerating him of endeavor to cause false testimony or to influence a witness improperly or of improper or unethical conduct, and declaring that his visit to Mrs. Lansdowne was "an obligation imposed by lawful regulations...
...many the play will be an adventure in the worried field of the inexplicable. Most minds will not understand and will therefore condemn it. Almost any fine forward-looking endeavor in the arts runs this maddening risk. For the rest the play will be a memorable experience...