Word: endeavored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Miami, and the tourists began to seek winter warmth, to millions in the U. S. Florida had become a place to rest, to play, to escape from the year-round realities at home. Up to this week, some 2,000,000 had spent $250,000,000 on that endeavor this season. If, when they headed home again, their winter tans were on the creamy side, they did not greatly mind. Another 500,000 or so were bound to follow, get deeper tans, and further bolster the heretical theory that Florida is a better place to go in the spring than...
...speech to the Boy Scouts, who were celebrating their 31st anniversary, made a statement that many a businessman would like to believe: "The Government cannot and should not pre-empt those fields of private endeavor that have become an indispensable part of life in America." This remark, so opposite to the oldtime Roosevelt denunciations of entrenched greed, gave color to reports of his new attitude of "sweet reasonableness" toward industry...
...cause of liberty and learning now eclipsed over most of Europe is nowhere better understood than in the great and historic institutions from which these Christmas greetings come. The more profoundly do we appreciate this noble and moving recognition of our endeavor, together with the other universities of Great Britain, to maintain the continuity of scholarship and to keep even in these days the standards of knowledge unimpaired and the sources of truth unsoiled...
...glove you have worn, or I cannot live. . . ." Biographer James Boswell to Isabella de Zuylen (1764): "You have fine talents of one kind; but are you deficient in others? Do you think your reason is as distinguished as your imagination? Believe me, Zelide, it is not. Believe me and endeavor to improve. . . ." (She rejected him.) Field Marshal Gebhard von Bliicher to one Frau von S. (1795): "I can't enter upon any marriage which does not make provision for my old age and for the welfare of my children. ... I am aware, dear lady, that you are the possessor...
...Sound, Fla. for a Manhattan conference, attended the Gridiron Club dinner in Washington, where he delivered the principal off-the-record address to an enthusiastic audience, returned to Manhattan to say his say to the ex-Willkie Club members: "I have a tremendous interest in principles and in that endeavor I hope to carry on. ... One of the difficulties in American public life has been its failure to call its ablest and best men in public service. ... I hope that as a result of the Willkie Club movement you will develop men and women to serve. ... I hope that...