Word: endeavors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This committee will interview each member of the Class of 1924 living in the dormitories or within easy distance. The remainder of the class will be reached by mail. The solicitors will endeavor to sign up every man for at least the $250 minimum policy of endowment insurance...
...grieve to find so many unsettled points are causing us trouble and concern, and I assure you it will be my daily endeavor to help settle them to our mutual benefit. You have your public opinion and I have mine; you have your national interests to conserve and protect and I have mine. Sometimes at first they may be in conflict, but I am sure by the strenuous action of good-will these conflicts can be settled and policies devised in pursuit of which France and Great Britain can remain in hearty coooperation...
...fortune, married a Southern girl, has a child and lives in Great Neck, L. I. At heart, he is one of the kindliest of the younger writers. Artistry means a great deal to F. Scott Fitzgerald?and into his own best work he pours a real torrent of artistic endeavor. This he demands in the work of others, and when he does not find it he criticizes with passionate earnestness. I have known him, after reading a young fellow-novelist's book, to take what must have been hours of time to write him a lengthy, careful and penetrating analysis...
...Bernard, who stands for the spirit of that endeavor...
...incorrigibles, notably James Cabell, endeavor with some small degree of success, to hoist their less agile following to their own high places of the spirit. But even Cabell permits himself a not infrequent glance at the dwellers in the piquant values of material dalliance...