Word: endeavorment
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...said, "is always a majority." Amid some ominous grumblings, he began a persistent campaign to persuade his congregation to "meet the challenge of integration." He preached the Christian view of equality. "It is not my purpose to force on you my own convictions," he said, "but to endeavor to lead you into the word of God." Then he passed the word to a parish worker to invite two Negro women to Sunday services...
...Laguerre as the sage of Paris' Longchamp and London's Ascot, while Laguerre considers Ways nonpareil when it comes to picking them at New York's Belmont and Miami's Hialeah. Last week the old friends were getting ready to trade these special fields of endeavor: Laguerre is coming to the U.S. as assistant managing editor of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, and Ways will replace him as London Bureau Chief and senior European correspondent for TIME and LIFE. Max Ways, 50, got his start as a handicapper and journalist in Baltimore, a good race-track and newspaper town...
...largely because they feel it would eliminate dilettantism. Because biochemistry majors are required to take only five concentration courses, including physics, many students never get beyond the elementary stages in this field. As a result, these undergraduates never receive the real benefit of concentration--discipline in a certain academic endeavor...
Added Bronk: "In the spirit of research we will endeavor to preserve a flexible educational pattern and an adventurous environment for our students. We agree with Abraham Flexner, the great educator . . . 'As a democracy needs intellectual distinction, it would be fatal to exhibit too timorous a spirit...
...segregated game, and neither necessary nor compulsory. All Southern cities report two things: 1) that the number of Negro players is uniformly very small, and 2) that there have been no incidents . . . We believe we will have the support of the great majority of our people as we endeavor to meet this new situation with the same calmness and levelheadedness which many of our sister cities of the South have already shown...