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Word: endeavors (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...helping him to a knowledge of a field of history, say, or a science, or a pre-legal course or a specific bit of training leading on to a job, the greatest service which the College can give him is the ability to think and "a zest for intellectual endeavor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VALEDICTORY | 6/21/1937 | See Source »

...Physics department, where the problem is most vital, a few willing tutors endeavor to supply this training, snowed under as they are by their own work...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CONCENTRATION EDITORIAL | 5/18/1937 | See Source »

...burning question is where the money necessary to erect a Harvard rink could come from. That is what the committee appointed last night will endeavor to determine...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COUNCIL SETS HOCKEY RINK BALL IN MOTION | 4/22/1937 | See Source »

This time it's "Sea Devils", for one. The glories of the Army, the Navy, the Marines, and the combined air forces of all three have been subjects of Hollywood endeavor, and nauseam. This is, so far as this reviewer knows, the first time anyone's gotten the licks in on the Coast Guard. And, guess what, Victor McLaglen is the swaggering hard-drinking pride of the force...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: *The Moviegoer* | 4/16/1937 | See Source »

...undeniable prerogatives of great men is the right to forget about everyday things, to miss out on details of ordinary existence that occupy the thoughts of petty men, men who lack the ability to bestride the world like a Colossus in their appointed tasks of human endeavor. A figure who has led the world in his interpretation of the Romantic poets, for instance, is the Francis Lee Higginson Professor of English Literature. But John Livingston Lowes displays the most lovable trait of complete indifference to the Harvard catalogue, and he has from time to time announced in his lectures that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tbe Crime | 4/13/1937 | See Source »

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