Word: endeavors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...patient is perspiring excessively. When nausea or vomiting is present, food is avoided; if it persists, bits of cracked ice and sips of charged water are given. The diet is slowly increased so that in five to seven days the patient is receiving a 750-850 calorie diet. An endeavor is made to accord each patient individual attention and to satisfy his tastes whenever possible. ... In the great majority of cases pain disappears after the first two days on this diet...
...wine, the sparkling champague of other days that is being tasted, rather than the heavy bodied liqueurs which are usually expected from classicists. Indeed, the presentation for wide-spread attention of the lighter, the more pleasant, the human side of those who strolled by the Tiber is a laudable endeavor, "quo quiddem opere quid potest esse pracclarius...
...fourth century President Conant's hope to enlarge the university's service will have only the more support because his program of extension includes a plan of simplification. Dr. Conant believes that students in American colleges should have food less elaborate but more nourishing. "The faculties," he says, "should endeavor to reduce the number of courses given and in many cases to condense the material now presented. The tremendous subdivision of the fields of learning which has occurred in the past thirty-five years will certainly shock the academic historian a century from now. The increase in the number...
...double program is planned by the Crimson forces, who will endeavor not only to fathom the spectra of the sun's atmosphere and take numerous photographs of the phenomena, but also to take along a group of graduate students under the direction of Harry R. Mimno '28, assistant professor of Physics, to make radio studies of the Kennely-Heavyside layer and its effect upon radio waves...
...investigations, moreover, were confined to pupils in the high schools of three Massachusetts towns, a singularly restricted erea of examination. No private schools or distant fields of endeavor were included in the experiment, and little or no effort at obtaining a general cross-section was made. In addition, the primary assumption that the surface character of the six-year old is all-important, obviously places too much emphasis on heredity and too little on environment. A great many self-made men began life in an extremely inauspicious way, only awakening from what might be termed "paralysis of the ambition" after...