Word: endeavoring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...similar vein, Kerr warned that federal subsidies should go to those areas of endeavor that are most vigorous at the time, and most in need of help. He said that "imbalance" has often been conducive to maximum creativity, as when the physical sciences received the large bulk of federal aid after World War II. Kerr asserted that the government must remain flexible in these matters, and cited the biological sciences and the creative arts as two areas that might become increasingly worthy of federal, and university concern...
...very hard for me to understand why we are supporting in South Viet Nam freedom fighters, and why we are holding them back and preventing them from operating in Cuba 90 miles off our shore. I hope it is not as a means or as an endeavor to placate or to appease the Soviets...
...tempo of change has increased, prophecy has become an increasingly hazardous undertaking. Most recent predictions in retrospect seem unaccountably timid; one has the feeling that the prophets of late have failed to recognize the most fundamental aspect of scientific endeavor today--its incredible, accelerating rate of discovery and accomplishment...
...will sooner or later solve the problem. Scientists from Newton to Salk have expressed this sentiment, and not out of false modesty; one has only to look at the number of simultaneous discoveries in the history of science to see the trend of inevitability, in both theoretical and applied endeavor. Thus both Neptune, and the theory of evolution were simultaneously and independently discovered...
...three years, freshman teams have had impressive winning records (9-2 this year, 9-4 last season, and 11-2 two years ago). Each of these teams has advanced into a losing varsity quintet, and found varsity basketball a quite different, much less enjoyable experience than their first-year endeavor...