Word: endeavors
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Landon's balanced budget by declaring: "I do not believe that Kansas, any more than any other state, would have pulled through the difficult problems of the past four years as it has, had it not been for Federal cooperation and Federal assistance in many fields of your endeavor...
...dismayed by the lack of a decision at the debate, the Crimson men garnered doubtful honors in still another field of endeavor. Jubilantly they claim the distinction of having set a record between Cambridge and Hanover: two hours and forty-four minutes, including time spent on court proceedings at Concord and Nashua...
...clairvoyance of Duke University's Psychologist Joseph Banks Rhine, who in a great number of carefully controlled laboratory tests has apparently demonstrated that ordinary people can learn to "read" an unseen pack of cards much better than could be explained by chance (TIME, Dec. 10, 1934). In this endeavor Mr. Price reported no success...
Granted, our job is an endeavor to try and 'look pretty" every so often-but it's a job-our coffee and cakes and hardly comes under the heading of vanity...
Roller Derby is the name given by its inventor, a onetime cinema salesman named Leo ("Bromo") Seltzer, to the preposterous endeavor, by a group of mixed couples, to outdistance each other in a marathon race on roller skates. Promoter Seltzer invented Roller Derbies- entrance to which can be attained only by winning elimination races in the Seltzer Roller Derby Association, with 3,000 members at $2 each-a year ago, to replace his Walkathons which he said were beginning to grow vulgar. By last winter he had selected a group of teams who competed successively in Chicago (TIME...