Word: endeavored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This period of silence has not been marked by inaction on the part of the boys with their $15 pay raise jingling in their pockets every month. They have already commenced to distinguish themselves in various lines of endeavor; some in the classrooms, under the new Harvard influence in their lives; others in the brighter spots of Boston, under other influences, no doubt; and still others over the local telephone system...
...Fund is a plan to stabilize the ratio be tween the currencies of 44 nations (Denmark was not assigned a quota), in an endeavor to protect the 1,500,000,000 people of those nations against slumps caused by a temporary shortage of foreign exchange. The Bank would make available, under most careful safeguards, a great pool of money for the reconstruction or physical improvement of war-damaged or backward areas. For detailed de scription of the two proposed institutions, see below...
Says Fish: "The plan is an altruistic endeavor to get the freshmen into the social activities of the House." period...
...Poling, president of World's Christian Endeavor Union, editor in chief of the Christian Herald, is preaching eight Sundays at Scots as 1944 Turnbull preacher. The Turnbull Trust was established (1925) by four sons and a daughter of Scots' parishioners, Mr. & Mrs. John Turnbull. They gave ?5,500 ($27,500), the income from which is used to invite "eminent clergymen from other parts of the world" to preach at Scots. Preacher Poling allowed Scots to pay only his traveling expenses. Scots Church was built by David Mitchell, father of the late great soprano Nellie Melba, who used...
When the King of Siam invited Anna to Bangkok, the royal summons read: "And we hope that in doing your education on us and on our children (whom English call inhabitants of benighted land) you will do your best endeavor for knowledge of English language, science, and literature, and not for conversion to Christianity. . . . We beg to invite you to our royal palace to do your best endeavorment upon us and our children...