Word: endeavor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...also represents such industries as the Pennsylvania Railroad, Bethlehem Steel Corporation, Copper and Brass Association, and the Standard Oil Company. Mr. Lee began his career as a newspaper reporter in New York City, and his present profession is an outgrowth the from his experience derived in that line of endeavor...
...study in eighteenth century humanism by Percy H. Houston G'06, Assistant Professor of English at the University of California, was awarded a medal for excellence in the general quality of the edition. A similar exhibition has been held for several years as part of the society's endeavor to cultivate printing by bringing together and comparing all the trade edition books of the year that claim distinction. Books which were printed in limited editions, however, were not included in the exhibit...
...matter of material values; it is the waste of spiritual forces which appals him: the sort of spiritual squalor which apparently has America so malignantly in its grip?dwarfing constructive endeavor, substituting pride of possession for pride of achievement...
...current justifications for denominationalism become thin when missionaries in foreign fields endeavor to translate them into heathen tongues. In Chinese, for example, the Methodist Episcopal Mission becomes, literally, "the doubly beautiful society," because there are two m's in M. E. M., and the Chinese pronounces m as "may," and "may" means "beautiful." The Wesleyan Methodists are the "following the Doctrine society," the Lutherans the "doing the Doctrine society," the Limited Methodists the "be with me society," the Congregationalists the "common sense society...
...tremendous difficulties due to the complexities of the situation, by that curious but not by any means unnatural homocentric impulse which makes man consider himself a thing apart from Nature and inexplicable according to her laws. But the time has obviously arrived when the success of human endeavor in investigating and subsequently in exploiting material forces must be balanced by equal success in exploring and controlling human forces. And the methods which have brought about the present crisis, because of their one-sided application, are all upon which man can rely to restore a safe and reasonable equilibrium...