Word: endeavors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which dawns today," concluded Mr. King, a politician of the grand old school, "we take up at once, as our supreme task, the endeavor to end poverty in the midst of plenty; starvation and unnecessary suffering in a land of abundance; discontent and distress in a country more blessed by Providence than any other on the face of the globe, and to gain for individual lives, and for the nation as a whole, that 'health and peace and sweet content' which is the rightful heritage...
...years was Secretary General of the League of Nations, the cynicism of Sir Eric in converse with fellow diplomats at Rome last week was piquant to those who had known him only at Geneva. No man could say that "the deal" would be consummated, for all human endeavor is fallible, and with the heaviest naval concentration since Jutland jamming the Mediterranean this week, the fate of Europe was clearly at the mercy of an incident...
With Russian newsorgans clamoring for "Stakhanovism" in all branches of Bolshevik endeavor last week, Stakhanov and his chief assistant were each given a Soviet automobile, feted as heroes...
Harvard is having a new deal in athletics in an endeavor to save money and it has been necessary to place part of the sports on an informal basis. At present polo, rugby and golf are in this position which means that they are provided with university facilities as much as possible and the H. A. A. contributes a small sum for coaching expenses, but the burden equipment and transportation falls upon the shoulders of the participants
...dedicate their lives to the contemplation of the economic, sociological, psychological, physiological and pathological phenomena manifested by the civilized nations and their constitutive individuals. And to that of the development of Science and of the influence of its applications to our habits of life and of thought. They would endeavor to discover how modern civilization could mold itself to man without crushing any of his essential qualities. Their silent meditation would protect the inhabitants of the new city from the mechanical inventions which are dangerous for their body or their mind, from the adulteration of thought as well as food...