Word: endeavorment
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...display of TIME covers on the classroom walls. Then each cover is placed under a mat so that only the face is visible, and the picture is projected onto a screen. In a written test, the students are required to identify 100 cover subjects by name and specific endeavor. Through the years, this visual test has a special impact in creating and deepening a lasting interest in contemporary history...
...discussing the genesis of his life as a poet, Yevtushenko manifests a strong sense of tradition and loyalty. He writes of the love of learning handed down to him by his father, and of two poets who first encouraged his endeavor. "Once they had both wanted to become writers but so far neither had succeeded. And now they saw in me their own youth, and wanted me to fulfill its frustrated promise...
...discussing the genesis of his life as a poet, Yevtushenko manifests a strong sense of tradition and loyalty. He writes of the love of learning handed down to him by his father, and of two poets who first encouraged his endeavor. "Once, they had both wanted to become writers but so far neither had succeeded. And now they saw in me their own youth, and wanted me to fulfill its frustrated promise...
Though there was hardly a country or a field of endeavor where Irishmen failed to make a mark or a mint, the diminishing number of their compatriots at home kept wondering fretfully if they were a vanishing race...
...very important about this country." In a mood of reminiscence and evaluation. Theologian Tillich was summing up TIME'S 40th anniversary party, held last week in New York City. "All these people." as Tillich described them, were 284 subjects of cover stories in every field of human endeavor, who had gathered at the Waldorf-Astoria to help celebrate the birthday. The party provided a unique opportunity for businessman to meet musician, for architect to meet politician, for entertainer to meet scientist, for general to meet churchman, for physician to meet sportsman. "The point of this party." said Editor...