Word: endeavored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seen by Professor Ulich, the text in its present tentative state has two broad aims. Primarily it seeks to develop appreciation and understanding among diverse cultures for the furtherance of world peace; secondly it will endeavor to make available "to all peoples the world's full body of knowledge and culture...
...will, first of all, have a vocational guidance and consultative program to help men while they are here, and it will, secondly, endeavor to place graduates in positions for which they are best suited...
...transport or defense, delays treatment of deeply theoretical problems which promise nothing in the way of practical results in the immediate future. Yet the experience of science in the Soviet Union shows that these and other contradictions advanced by the opponents of state participation in the guidance of scientific endeavor are purely imaginary...
...heralded "Beer Bust" came off in record time with everything in sight, including twenty-four cases, consumed in one hour and ten minutes--somewhat of a Distinction for our guzzling class after the slow performances of the two less talented classes which preceded us in the same line of endeavor. Individual honors for consumption and antics were carried off by a member of a set of twins who are locally famous for their literary efforts. He was, however, closely followed by "Tex" Lifshutz, whose bass and impromptu leadership of rollicking songs left little in question about his ability to both...
...found it to be 24,902. (Columbus' estimate was 6,125 miles short.) On his voyages Amerigo remained awake, night after sleepless night, to study the stars and try to reason out what changes the New World's discovery forced in the science of navigation. "In the endeavor to ascertain longitude I have lost much sleep," said Amerigo, "and have shortened my life ten years, but I hold it well worth the cost. . . ." Columbus, the intuitive, estimated the speed of his ships by his heartbeats. Amerigo, the practical, calculated how far he had sailed by astronomy...