Word: endeavorment
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...selection must be made on the basis of something other than academic ability, after the elimination of applicants who would be unable to keep up with the required minimum standards of work. We like to have a few outstanding pure scholars and many leaders in various fields of endeavor...
...consider the French revolution as the cradle of the systematic method in modern scientific endeavor," Professor Richard Courant, the eminent mathematician, told his Lowell House listeners Friday night...
Inexorably my mind returns to those delicious poems our spiritual ancestors wrote in the sunny sixties of the last century. What a salubrious lesson for their progeny, Mr. Berman and Mr. Viereck, what a whole new world of literary endeavor. For, believe it or not, those knobby sophomores and other young men reserved something, did not toss out their inmost thoughts untempered, without discretion or taste...
...remaining stoires, two are especially impressive, Jack Ludwig's "Thoreau in California" and Arthur Miller's "I Don't Need You Any More." Ludwig's effort falls a little short because of the difficulty of his endeavor. Consistently amusing without being flip or irrelevant, he introduces an extremely improbable character who worships and lives by the words of an extremely Improbable pair of writers, Thoreau and Wilhelm Reich. But to make music of proper names requires a talent approximating Joyce's, and while Ludwig has done well enough indeed, the strictures of conventional sentence give much of his prose...
...there were any passengers in the coach, they would have turned the lights out in an endeavor to sleep...