Word: endeavored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cartoonists panting for a subject on which to exercise their talents, a Harvard man's map of the United States has always provided a ready field of endeavor -- that wonderful specimen of cartographic art which labels all land west of Boston as uninhabitable desert. Even within the sacred confines of the Yard, the unfortunate myth of Harvard indifference has gained appalling credence. But innocent Harvard has too long blushed under the oft repeated charges of intellectual isolation and smug localism. The University, long ready to absorb such blows flush on its scholarly chin, has at last reared up and made...
...replying to the charges brought against it, the Peace Rally Committee said, "We regret deeply that a group of students at Harvard University should endeavor to make political capital out of the question of peace. We hoped that all Harvard could unite on April 18 in an expression of its determination to keep...
...headquarters. There a huge model of a cop's nightstick leans against the wall, a photograph of his mother, who died two years ago, rests on the desk and on a radio stands a framed sentiment, "The Penalty of Leadership," which says: "In every field of human endeavor, he that is first must perpetually live in the white light of publicity. . . . When a man's work becomes a standard for the whole world, it also becomes a target for the shafts of the envious...
...Take This Woman (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). This Hollywood Hedy-ache began as a laudable endeavor to bring glamorous Miss Lamarr and her palpitant public face to face again. The first shooting was generally conceded to be so awful that after investing $900,000, the studio temporarily pushed it far back on the shelf while Spencer Tracy made Stanley and Livingstone, producers made changes in the cast, the direction, the Charles MacArthur script. Face-saving retakes cost some $500,000. Result: an entertainment hangover throbbing with the self-evident truism that Hedy Lamarr is quite an eyeful...
...Irish Presbyterian, Edwin Lawrence Godkin, who had emigrated to the U. S. nine years earlier. His associate editor, Wendell Phillips Garrison, was the son of Abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison. The Nation (named after a fiery Dublin weekly) announced that its purpose was to defend "free inquiry and free endeavor...