Word: endeavored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stand against nationalization of industry. (The Laborites have also indicated that their nationalizing drive is almost spent.) On social services, however, the Tories go as far as Labor-if not a bit farther. Said the Tory pamphlet: "We regard [the social services] as mainly our own handiwork. We shall endeavor faithfully to maintain the range and scope of these services, and the rates of benefits." The Tories promised increased government spending on farm subsidies, rural housing, roads and forests, pensions to widows, spinsters and the aged, and free drugs to "private patients" who choose to stay outside the National Health...
...editor. Franklin Roosevelt once called him "America's Spiritual Ambassador of Good Will." Last week, at 64, vigorous, bush-browed Dan Poling slackened the pace just a little. After 24 years in office, he announced his retirement as president of the International (i.e., North American) Society of Christian Endeavor (membership: 2,000,000). But he would still keep his jobs as president of the World's Christian Endeavor Union (4,000,000 members), chaplain of the Chapel of the Four Chaplains in Philadelphia, and editor of the slick-paper layman's monthly Christian Herald (circ...
...Eliot has had a vision, as is well known, of 'the cactus land,' of a parched, desertic world-not of a dark so much as of an ash-grey age-in which the springs of life dried. In painting Mr. Eliot it has been my endeavor to convey . . . some vestige of all that. So you will see in his mask, drained of too hearty blood, a gazing strain, a patient contraction, the body slightly tilted (in the immaculate armor of sartorial convention) in resigned anticipation of the worst...
...hoped, until the drama is given its rightful, official recognition); it will not again be related here. However, if the HDC had had intelligent faculty guidance and if it did not have to pay high rental fees (for both rehearsal space and an auditorium)--two handicaps the University could endeavor to remove--there is little doubt but that the past few years would not have been so fruitless and bitter for the Club...
Harvard has joined with Yale and six other universities in a cooperative endeavor to speed up research in the social sciences by maintaining joint files so that researchers may learn the latest developments in their particular areas...