Word: endeavors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...library books must express the sentiment of that vast group of college students who love books because books can be friends. But you ought to notice editorially that smaller groups of college students who entertain no such love, cherish no such fondness, for the sanctum of books. In the endeavor to please that smaller group, I suggest the following...
...centuries Harvard has sent forth her sons to carry her name and influence, and the name and influence of Massachusetts to all parts of the World. Conceived for the purpose of educating a ministry for the church, the mighty University has extended its leadership into every field of human endeavor...
...death of Dr. Nichols, Harvard loses one who has served the University for thirty years or more in various fields of endeavor. As an undergraduate, both a scholar and an athlete of unusual ability; as a medical student, ever keen and useful; as doctor, a friend of all whom he helped; as coach an inspiration to his charges, Seldom does one man's scope of usefulness cover such an extensive field. His war service with the First Harvard Unit was a credit to the University as well as to himself. As a member of various committees on athletics...
...observer was carried in the space of six months from one side to the other of the orbit 186,000,000 miles across. In spite of this very great length of base line, the shift in a stars position is so slight that it took 300 years of patient endeavor before instruments were perfected sufficiently exact to discover this so-called "parallax" which gave the clue to stellar distances. The first star to have its distance determined in this way is a faint star numbered 61 in the constellation Cygnus now visible in the eastern sky. Its distance was found...
...chancellor, the finance minister and the foreign minister, have made a serious effort to meet the commission's requirements"; they have taken action to put German finances on a sound basis. The floating debt, as well as the speed of the printing presses, is to be reduced. And the endeavor will be made to meet deficits from additional taxation...