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Word: endeavored (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Approving the decision, Dean Brown noted that "the head residents were concerned about this omission" in the original draft of the constitution. "The feeling is that partly in an endeavor to lighten the load of the dormitory presidents and to remedy a confusing governmental set-up, the SGA failed to take cognizance of the fact that the presidents have the most complete information on what is going on in the residential units...

Author: By Mary ELLEN Gale, | Title: Radcliffe Government Association May Decide College Social Rules | 2/7/1962 | See Source »

...high-pressure social life or the expense of fraternity affiliation. Such students remain independent and are thus forced to live in dormitori where social contacts are impeded, where the physical plant is inadequate for intellectual and social needs, and where artificial social barriers prohibit an atmosphere conducive to scholar endeavor...

Author: By Bruce L. Paisner, | Title: A House System Brown? | 11/17/1961 | See Source »

...does Duskin worry about policing students. Eight of them have set up their pads in a cabin outside town-in what combination he cares not. Says Duskin: "You can't lock girls up at 10:30 p.m. and expect them to understand The Republic." The only athletic endeavor is judo, "a thing of being concerned with your body and what it does." The judo squad calls itself the Transcendentalists, and its motto is: "It's not whether you can win or lose, but whether you can rise above the scene...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Kookie College | 8/18/1961 | See Source »

...whose fiercely proselytizing followers regard him as the fifth hoarse man of the Apocalypse. A Condon novel has the sound and shape of a bagful of cats. In The Oldest Confession, The Manchurian Candidate and Some Angry Angel, Condon garnered fans with accounts, written in messianic exasperation, of criminal endeavor, fate's falling cornices, widespread venality, the search for truth, Chinese torture practices, and the love of good women. The sort of nuance that drives his fans loopy with admiration comes when a concessionaire in Some Angry Angel, observing a figure perched on a window ledge, hurriedly prints...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Shortage of Cats | 7/21/1961 | See Source »

...months ago, and a fulltime staff of only three. It is often badly written, amateurish, and narrow in its approach. As far as the Inquirer is concerned, the only important stories are those involving the Negro's aggressive pursuit of equality. But in this electric sector of human endeavor, the Inquirer is giving lessons to newspapers all over the South...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Loud Voice in Atlanta | 6/30/1961 | See Source »

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