Word: endeavors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Texans wore straw sombreros, Kansans paper sunflower hats, Marylanders yellow and black capes, Californians sailor suits. And because Philadelphia was host last week to the 35th International Christian Endeavor convention, certain youthful Pennsylvanians wore Liberty Bell contraptions labeled, HELLO I'M GLAD TO SEE YOU. At Convention Hall 12,000 young people, aged from 16 to 27, paid $2 registration fees. Claiming thaT 40,000 attended some sessions, officials inaccurately called it "the largest youth gathering in the history of North America." Apparently they had forgotten that in 1895 a rousing Christian Endeavor convention in Boston drew...
...State is the common weal of all its citizens. Resurrected by the struggle and sacrifice of its best sons it shall be passed on, as an historic heritage, from generation to generation. Each generation is under obligation to increase the power and authority of the State by its own endeavor. For the fulfillment of this duty it is responsible with its honor and its name to its descendants...
...more ethic. Occupied with the loathsome mechanics of bombers and howitzers, the cruder nations seem to have lost sight of the aesthetic side of that man Mars. But there is no good reason why Gabrielic Chanel cannot pool her resources with the Quat d'Orsay in a gigantic endeavor, so that at the moment of the next Serajeve France will not be caught with her vanity case unopened...
...duties. Then the "sprint" begins. There are only sixteen couples remaining from the sixty who began, and the gentleman brags that he is getting them out on an average of two a week. May the powers above bless him and have mercy on his soul in his noble endeavor...
Spring basketball will last but three weeks. In that paltry time Fesler will endeavor to iron out the faults in technical execution of the elementals that his charges may show, and will form some idea as to his prospects for next year. The busy-like-bees atmosphere and the delightfully athletic smell of the upper reaches of the Athletic Building bode well for the next winter. The team ought to be a good one. By TIME...