Word: endeavor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dibble writes in part as a protest against the large mass of American biography-against its "sprawling incoherence," "parochial banalities," "maddening prolixity," "heavy slabs of adulation." His own portraits are characterized by refreshing brevity, a swift, strenuous manner, a sincere endeavor to get at the man behind the legend...
...First Committee of Experts will endeavor to find: a) the means of balancing the budget; b) the measures to be taken to stabilize the currency. Concerning the stabilization of the currency, the experts would be invited first of all to determine the conditions to be realized in order that a currency could be stabilized and then the measures to be progressively taken so as to realize all of these conditions...
...been the constant endeavor of the Soviet Government to bring about a resumption of friendly relations with the United States of America based upon mutual trust. With this end in view it has repeatedly announced its readiness to enter into negotiations with the American Government and to remove all misunderstandings and differences between the two countries...
...medium with dashingly modern and exotic, not to say erotic, effect, combining it with glittering overlays of gold and silver and with rich arabesques of pen-and-ink design which suggest alternately Leon Bakst and the late Aubrey Beardsley. Hope Weston is more seriously thoughtful and mystic, in her endeavor "to visualize Khayyám as he appeared to his contemporaries-to study his mind before FitzGerald gilded his thoughts...
...said: "Since the Speaker ceased to be Chairman of the Committee on Rules, I think there has been a steady tendency that he should be more and more a judicial officer, and I think that I shall be carrying out the wishes of those who elected me if I endeavor fairly and with my best judgment to apply the rules of parliamentary law and to interpret them as I believe they should be interpreted without favor and without malice, so that every man shall have the rights which the rules give him, and that this may be a Government...