Word: endeavored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There are few categories of human endeavor in which men are not discouraged by a lack of response from the world around them. But disciples of new prophets, managers of young Dempseys and mothers of prodigies usually experience nothing more painful than lofty anticipation when the public ignores their secret. Last week, by virtue of the same sort of faith in a sure thing, thousands of U.S. citizens reacted like Geiger counters to a completely unradioactive fragment of political news:' Minnesota's Republican ex-Governor Harold Stassen had started on a vacation...
...major uproar occurred when Tory Henry Strauss charged that Labor had handed out jobs in the nationalized transport system before the bill had become law. Cried Communist M.P. Willie Gallacher: "Does not the honorable and learned member know the meaning of decency?" Retorted Strauss: "The Communist Party had better endeavor to behave itself...
Strange reports had come from the workouts at Belmont Park. The bred-in-Argentina halfbrothers, Endeavor II and Ensueno, were being ridden without saddles, their peon exercise boys astride nothing more comforting than white sheets. Clockers and rival trainers were impressed: those dark bays were moving faster in their morning trials than many good horses travel during their afternoon races...
...preface that heads off his detractors before they can get at him, Author Maugham writes: "It is a misfortune for me that the telling of a story just for the sake of the story is not an activity that is in favor with the intelligentsia. I endeavor to bear my misfortune with fortitude." Routine as they are, the stories in Creatures of Circumstance will provide Old Party Maugham with the kind of royalty checks that help him bear...
Fullback in the Pulpit. His leadership of Christian Endeavor and his editorship of the influential lay religious magazine, the Christian Herald (circ. 390,000), make big Baptist Dan Poling a potent figure in U.S. Protestantism. He throws most of his weight into two-fisted action, rather than into theological ideas. In college, he played football on Saturdays and preached on Sundays; once he appeared in the pulpit with two black eyes and a swollen knee. In 1912 he ran for governor of Ohio. Even if he had won, he was too young (27) to take office legally; but Dan Poling...