Word: endeavored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...must put an end to the period when failure in private endeavor has been a passport to Government service; when crass political machines have dictated the appointment of foreign ambassadors and high judicial officers . . . when extravagance in public expenditures has been accepted as proof of love of common man and evidence of a liberal mind...
This, of course, brings up the question of how I'm able to dash off a column for the A-L boys. Frankly, it's a knack multiple endeavor is relatively easy for an old newspaperman (I quit the racket in 1939, when the bottom fell out of the price of old newspapers). The facility remains: I can fall out on the double for reveille in my bare feet, putting on my GI shoes as I run down the stairs. I lace 'em up, too--living as I do on the fourth floor, I have plenty of time...
...taking over the yearbook job, Marek said, "The yearbook staff will endeavor to record the military, academic, and social activities of the Midshipmen-Officers School. The book will represent the combined talents of the entire school...
Thus my first endeavor is addressed to that rapidly diminishing group of officers who have fought their way through the lures and traps of designing sirens and are still broadcasting on a single frequency...
...Poling, pastor of Philadelphia's Baptist Temple, president of World's Christian Endeavor Union, has been deeply touched by war. His son, Army Chaplain Clark Vandersall Poling, to whose memory the book is dedicated, died last February in the sinking of an army trans port in the North African campaign. He and three other chaplains (a Methodist, a Roman Catholic, a Jew) gave their life belts to soldiers who had none, were last seen kneeling together on a canting deck in their final prayer...