Word: endeavored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Because it believes that the present emergency can be successfully met by nothing less than the united and organized efforts of all the people, the group will endeavor to obtain a classified registration of faculty members and to recruit support for various defense agencies...
Because it believes that the present emergency can be successfully met by nothing less than the united and organized efforts of all the people, the group will endeavor to obtain a classified registration of faculty members and to recruit support for various defense agencies...
...Council's President and the Assembly's Speaker: "I do not doubt that, like all other British colonies, you here in the Bahamas are confronted with the same problem of reconciling your local interests with the changed conditions which hostilities have imposed. It will be my endeavor, however long or short the duration of my term of office, to lend you a helping hand in your efforts to solve...
...disheartening cynicism displayed by certain vociferous young gentlemen here at Harvard with regard to the present struggle in Europe is not. I earnestly endeavor to believe, a general attitude. It is a curious fact, and a tragic one for America, that so many college students do not identify themselves vitally with the issues now at stake in France and Flanders. For them--and for all those whose preoccupation is with the balance of sacrifice and benefits returned--the words of Andre Chenier cannot be understood...
...Note: (1) The General Laws of Massachusetts contain a broad admonition that Harvard endeavor to "impress on the minds . . . of the youth permitted in its care . . . the principles of chastity and those other virtues which are the ornament of human society." The appointment of Bertrand Russell does not contravene that clause, as Mr. Sullivan suggests. Dr. Russell has stated that while on a Harvard platform he will confine himself to his lecture subject--announced as logic and semantics--since "even if I were permitted to expound my moral views in the classroom, my own conscience would not allow...