Word: endeavored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...people in the U.S. were hardly aware of an Asian event which Itagaki and the Japanese army never forget. That event was the weird (to Occidental minds) and semicomic Japanese invasion of Russian territory in 1918. The Japs chose an opportune moment, when Red Russia was weak aborning, to endeavor a second time to drive the Russian bear out of the Far East. They wanted, and seized, Russia's northern half of the island of Sakhalin, the half rich in coal and oil, and added it to their southern half. In the guise of Allied intervention, they seized Vladivostok...
...continue to have an essentially free and classless society in this country, we must proceed from the premise that there are no educational privileges. We must endeavor to sort out at each stage in the educational process those boys and girls who can profit from one type of education, and those who can profit by another. There must be a variety of educational channels leading towards different walks in life. And as far as possible there should be no hierarchy of education disciplines; no one channel should have a social standing above the other...
...Stanton, P.B.H. Social Service Committee member, who was in charge of the endeavor, expressed his gratitude to the undergraduate body for its "tremendous response." Asserting that the Committee had set its goal of 1000 books, which was surpassed, with only faint hope of its attainment. Stanton congratulated the College for its "very healthy and heartening spirit...
Most obvious of the changes in the traditional system, of course, is the substitution of a 12-week session in place of the original 6-week course. Although the Summer School will endeavor to preserve as much as possible the features of past years, the School Administration, under the leadership of Professor Kirtley F. Mather, is completely reorienting its program in view of the international situation...
...University will still have a Placement Office, the descendant of the temporary one set up during the War. Even if there is no more V-7 in those far-off days, it is certain that by that time Professor Casner will have discovered some other constructive line of endeavor to suggest to all applicants...