Word: endeavored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...must forego the emotional satisfaction of letting our sympathies be swept away either by the evils which surround us or the proposals for Utopias which rain on us from every side. A man must endeavor to be a rational human being without becoming a dehumanized intellectual machine...
...Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, briefly interrupting his tour of war-riven Kashmir, treated himself to a game of badminton doubles, paired with Defense Minister Sardar Baldev Singh, treated the world to a pleasant scene of dignified concentration and earnest endeavor...
...leaders have achieved, pressed into irresponsibility by their own backward outlook and, more significantly, by the formal contest for control of their Party which looms so close at hand. If the dominant Martin-Taber-Halleck Knutson cabal successfully "guts," to use Senator Vandenberg's expression of yesterday, the ERP endeavor, it will amount to national tragedy. If this is heaped upon the deed of a mangled reciprocal trade agreements program and if it is followed by the further steps which such a high-riding reactionary leadership would surely attempt, the earthquake tremor of fear of American isolationism which has already...
...humorously written letter Mr. Leonard stated that it had been his endeavor to impress proctors at examinations to be unobtrusive...
After four months of vigorous academic endeavor, the perspiring undergraduate should be allowed to scribble out his final examination in an atmosphere of monastic calm. But unfortunately for the piece of mind he is trying to set down coherently in his bluebook, the exam proctors' activities are too often distracting. Proctors parade up and down the aisles, and frequently peer intently over the undergraduate shoulder, and when the undergraduate eye moves wearily around the room for a brief rest, it encounters the fierce, accusing glare of these vigilantes...