Word: endeavor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...LaFollette group will have its candidates for office which it probably will not elect; but it will endeavor by this means to prevent the election of extreme conservatives, and to obtain for itself important committee places...
Education, like almost every other kind of human endeavor in these times, is in a state of flux. Dissatisfaction, discussion, innovation are rife, and while many mistakes may be made, there is certain to be progress. In fact such progress is already in evidence in the extension of freedom of cuts at the University and at Princeton, a move toward the ideal of education by desire rather than by compulsion. But Columbia has taken the greatest stride of all in its plan, just announced, of abolishing mid-year and final examinations in certain trial courses and perhaps in the near...
...second time. In these speeches Mr. Wilson, with innate altruism, explained the pros and cons of this heritage of the 18th Century philosophers, and categorically reasoned why and for what purpose the U. S. should enter into this great bond of peace, the hall-mark of Utopian endeavor. What he said is well known ?too well known to need elucidation or exemplification; but what is more important is that his stirring appeals have as yet been unrewarded, and, apparently, his high aspirations for the League of Nations are, in Homer's words, "late, late in fulfillment." The reasons...
...What amazes one in the life of Theodore Roosevelt is his prodigious activity of mind and body and his great accomplishments in so many fields of endeavor. He was a scientific naturalist and famous hunter. The number of his books and their quality would satisfy the ambition of one who wished only to be distinguished as an historian and in letters. His constant aim was to get out of himself the best there...
...been able to hold the bucking legal broncos well in hand. He is the calm, confident, dominating figure of the court room. He handles the lawyers much as a school teacher would handle unruly primary children. While authoritative in his manner, he is not autocratic or haughty. His main endeavor is to preserve order and obedience, and to have the proceedings possess the dignity of a trial rather than resemble the wranglings in a barroom...