Word: endeavored
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...equality with my classmates. My intimate friends ranked from the sons of a university president down to my own neighbors, and never once did anything ever happen that made me feel poor or embarrassed. It is my experience that working one's way through college is considered an honorable endeavor by rich and poor alike...
...India," he continued, "is one of the first objectives of the Bolshevist campaign. The East is the main endeavor of the world revolution, English Imperialism is aimed at. The object is to create a Communist party here, with the assistance of Communists outside, to stir up trouble throughout our Eastern empire and to stir up trouble in labor policy in this country...
...Hawthorne were graduated from Bowdoin a century ago, in commemoration of which event their alma mater has just held an institute of modern literature, attended by a score of America's foremost poets, novelists, dramatists, essayists, and scholars. The aim of this institute was to stimulate creative and artistic endeavor, especially in the colleges of New England--a memorial most in keeping with the spirit and achievement of these great figures...
...Sporting Venus. Blanche Sweet retains much of her old charm though her glory of appearance has departed. She is in this endeavor cast as a hard-riding Lady somebody-or-other from Scotland. Her love lies at the feet of a young commoner and is brusquely seized and hurled toward a wicked Prince from the Balkans. The Prince nearly gets her until she discovers that he has been betting with her large estates which he never possessed. Back comes the commoner, rich and forgiving. Ronald Colman in the latter part again indicates his great possibilities...
Nothing can be more disheartening than the results of scientific endeavor when applied to popular beliefs. Not that people accept scientific conclusions for they do not--but no one feels exactly comfortable when proving a point by a popular saying which he knows to be false. "Sunset" is still the accepted term for "earthrise", and ostriches continue to bury their heads in the sand everywhere but in real life in spite of all that scientists say to the contrary, but these are exceptions. Even the bee has now been unmasked as a sluggard, not at all living...