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Word: endeavored (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...party to a divorce granted for desertion or adultery. The new recommendation sanctions divorce when "a marriage dies at the heart and the union becomes intolerable," and permits remarriage of any divorced person in whom "sufficient penitence for sin and failure is evident, and a firm purpose of, and endeavor after, Christian marriage is manifested." The new proposal is not yet church law; it must first be approved by three-fourths of the 83 presbyteries, then by next year's General Assembly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Divorce & Segregation | 5/12/1958 | See Source »

...common market idea is very popular in France," Herve Alphand, French Ambassador to the United States, said yesterday. "It is my view," he added, that no endeavor is more necessary to the defense and the survival of the free world...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ambassador From France Favors Establishment of 'Common Market' | 5/7/1958 | See Source »

Between May Day, U.S.S.R., and May Day, U.S.A., lies the difference between those who use laws as instruments for force and those who believe in the force of law to bring order and decency to human endeavor; the difference is one of the outlaw and the lawful. To emphasize that difference, to provide an occasion for national rededication to the rule of law, the President proclaimed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: May Day, U.S.A. | 5/5/1958 | See Source »

Walter A. Baker '58 of Kirkland House and Columbia, Ky., has won a Citizenship Award from the International Society of Christian Endeavor. A runner-up in the 1956 and 1957 contests, Baker's prize is $200 and a trip to the Society's New York Convocation. He is active in the Student Christian Movement and the Young Republican Club...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Baker Wins Prize | 4/29/1958 | See Source »

Aside from the immediate influence of his works on the field of letters, Kitteredge helped bring the public to think of scholarship as respectable endeavor, more than a pedant's ocupation. When it was remarked that Widener was "an elephant" among buildings in the yard, he countered, "What if it is? You could destroy all the other Harvard buildings to the northwest and, with Widener left standing, still have a University." For Kittredge, books were humanity recorded...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: KITTREDGE | 4/16/1958 | See Source »

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