Word: endeavorment
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...advantages of summer education, which seem obvious today, were not fully recognized in the Gilded Decade of the 90's. Popular health beliefs centered around the notion that summers should be restful, not devoted to scholarly endeavor. Poring over books for twelve months of the year was considered unwise, leading possibly to illness or lack of vigor. The staid Boston Herald once again fixed a jaundiced eye upon the Harvard campus, editorializing in part...
...thousands of New Yorkers, Minnie at 78 personifies Lewisohn Stadium. She organized the concerts in the summer of 1918, hit on the crowd-catching mixture of jazz, pop music, "Viennese Nights" and serious classical endeavor. And it was Min nie who gave some of the best known names in music-Marian Anderson, Larry Adler, Eugene Ormandy-their first major concert audiences...
...Edinburgh (Aug. 21-Sept. 10). Britain's largest festival combines flamboyance and elegance with serious if unadventurous endeavor-quantities of Brahms, Beethoven, Verdi and Mozart, with two premieres: William Walton's Second Symphony, Humphrey Searle's Third Symphony...
...nationalization move was conducted on legalistic lines. But the display of legitimacy was mere show-window stuff for the fellahin in Cairo's bazaars. In truth. Cairo's privately owned newspapers had embarrassed Nasser by making money, an endeavor in which his house organ. Al Gumhuria, has notably failed...
Jobs for a Lifetime. Until the new churches can really stand on their own, much remains to be done by missionaries. Says Lutheran Wesley Sadler, who runs a literacy center in the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland: "It is fallacious to say that the missionary should endeavor to work himself out of a job. Linguistic missionaries, for example, may have completed their task in a particular language area, but there are hundreds of others for them to turn their talents to. In general, the needs of the mission are great and will not be met in our lifetime...