Word: endeavorment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Your review [TIME, April 15] of the movie adaptation of A. J. Cronin's tender The Green Years is a wholly disgusting critical endeavor. . . . The remark that "if cinema carries this sort of thing much farther, theaters will have to be consecrated" . . . is narrow, and is so lacking in perspicacity as to suggest that the reviewer is the residual of a brain extraction...
Buenos Aires bankers, Argentine and foreign, were mostly too stunned and too scared by the shattering decree to talk. Gloomed one: "We must play for time and endeavor to save as much from the wreck as possible." First reports that the decree might cost as much as 80% of their business appeared to be exaggerated. They could probably still make good money if they submitted to orders. The U.S.-owned National City Bank and "Boston Bank" (as Argentines call the Argentine branch of Boston's First National) prepared to get along with Perón on his terms. Said...
...This does not mean that the Government or its fact-finding board is going to endeavor to fix a rate of return for the employer. It does mean, however, that . . . the question of earnings is relevant...
...today is not so much how can we control this new and devastating force let loose on the world by science as what kind of world society is necessary in a world where a few bombs might destroy utterly great cities and the work of centuries of human endeavor...
Cheep to Bellow. Nationalism reared its meek head in Java a generation ago. A chick of the first Dutch efforts at native education, its first cheeps in 1908 were a safe & sane Boedi Oetomo (High Endeavor) society, founded by some aristocratic Javanese medical students. A bevy of more determined groups followed it. Within a decade such nationalists as the smooth-faced, smooth-talking Soekarno, a Bandung Technical University engineering graduate, and Mohammed Hatta, who went to Amsterdam University, were getting bold ideas. They had heard of things like Communism, self-determination, revolution. In the '20s their exuberance landed both...