Word: endeavorment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...might expect, the throne-room of the New England Watch and Ward Society is a cold, bare cell in the far-reaches of the Christian Endeavor Building, just across from the Society of Prevention of Cruelty to Children and nigh unto the stronghold of the Anti-vivisection League. In the midst of two city blocks of good-doings, this traditionally New England watchdog of morality slowly undergoes a transition that may transform a 20th Century Inquisition into a same, if overexcited, organ of public conscience. From out of this holy-of-holies stop Beacon Hill have come some...
This Great Endeavor...
Your article "This Great Endeavor" [TIME, Sept. 30] was unfair to Henry Wallace as well as to the American public...
Meat was just one of a hundred fields of endeavor. Baked beans were scarce in New England. Fatback was scarce in the South and thousands of cooks were grumpily boiling vegetables without it-just like the damyankees. But you could get things, Mac. If you wanted to load up on wine, gin, rum or all three you could get a bottle of Scotch. You could get a new automobile by trading in your used car for a reasonable price-say about nine dollars. In San Francisco one John M. McLachlan got a used bathtub for only $8.25 above the ceiling...
...Ichi Building office late one night, scanning proofsheets of the English-language Nippon Times, his eye lit on an editorial reprinted from the Tokyo daily Jiji Shimpo. "Japanese teachers," he read, "have the habit of blind worship for . . . the man in power. . . . They used to endeavor to instill in the minds of their pupils that the Emperor was God. Now they claim that General MacArthur is the Savior.. .. Until the Japanese are cleansed of this servile concept, democracy in Japan will make no progress...