Word: endeavoring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there were any passengers in the coach, they would have turned the lights out in an endeavor to sleep...
...current endeavor to surround the admissions process with an aura of mystery is probably a defense mechanism on the part of a Committee harassed by applicants, parents, teachers, guidance counselors, and principals to define what the College is "looking for." Such a definition could quickly become extraordinarily limiting for a school which wants to remain flexible enough to identify, attract, and reward many forms of promise. Applicants already do their best to fit into what they consider the required mold, curtailing spontaneous intellectual griwth and activity. But if the Committee is now showing a Yankee sort of wisdom in keeping...
...polarization of the popular and the esoteric. Because this new audience has a sizable influence in what is played and recorded, music must lessen the gap between the listener and the innovating composer. But if a musicians wishes to devote even part of his time to this endeavor, he must either abandon extensive experimentation or else lead a schizophrenic musical life in pursuing two lines of composition, "functional" and "absolute...
Pietro Belluschi, dean of architecture at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and himself one of the most skilled of church architects, reluctantly concurs. But for Architect Belluschi this fact is in itself a challenge: "If we cannot erect great monuments, we may endeavor to create small temples, on a more human scale, designed in a sensitive manner so as to produce the kind of atmosphere most conducive to worship...
...discussion of new possibilities in nuclear technology is "irresponsible" and "scare" talk. From a nuclear scientist who must know that nuclear technology is in its infancy and that its possibilities are almost endless this statement is incomprehensible. He further maintains that nothing must "inhibit the government" in its endeavor to reach an agreement with the Soviet Union on the cessation of nuclear tests. He apparently shares the current obsession, prevalent in a sector of the scientific community and unfortunately communicated to the government, that a treaty to end nuclear tests is somehow inevitably the beginning of disarmament and a guarantee...