Word: endeavored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...part of society-an equal among equals-and is not thought of as an ambassador from the Land of Truth. He is expected to serve society, not to change it ... If he is tolerated at all, it is only when he shifts his allegiance from disinterested truth to community endeavor...
...measured against his contemporaries in the German language-Gerhart Hauptmann, Rilke, Kafka, Stefan Zweig et al.-Mann was still a giant. And against charges that he was "Olympian," "pompous," "ponderous," he could well defend himself: "My endeavor," he wrote, "is to make the heavy light; my ideal is clarity; and if I write long sentences-a tendency inherent in the German tongue-I make it my business, not without success, to maintain the utmost transparency and spoken rhythm." In German he was an exquisite stylist, and he brought to that language a new sensitivity in the art of storytelling...
...motivated not by the need for an answer to an immediate problem, said Seaborg, but by an "intellectual curiosity [which can] be rated with the highest qualities of mankind," with far-reaching, broad goals and indefinite deadlines. Out of such curiosity come the discoveries which guide all scientific endeavor...
...weeks ago we moved from Henley to Putney, the starting place of the Boat Race. For more than a month we have given up all pretense of academic endeavor. We are living for rowing alone...
While the University of Michigan has always been proud of begin compared academically with Harvard this is only the second time that we have met them in an athletic endeavor. Rumor has it that the Harvard players carry copies of spinoga and Henry James in their green book bags in addition to a hockey stick...