Word: endeavors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...against democratic tyranny. Second, those foreign statesmen who recall what American writers and politicians said in connection with the war debts--that if was "morally reprehensible" for sovereign governments to "funk on their contracts." The third class is not really a class, it is just Senator Borah. Will he endeavor to have his legislation, making it impossible for governments that defaulted on their debt contracts to borrow again in the United States, made applicable to the Roosevelt government...
...easy way to clear the field for discussion, it would be advisable immediately to eliminate the present requirement of an elementary knowledge. A one year course in a language cannot introduce the student into a new field of intellectual endeavor to any profitable extent, nor can it help his practical or cultural knowledge of the language and its literature. There is an almost unanimous concensus among those students who have been forced to take German A as a result of the present rules that they have wasted a year which could have been more profitably spent in the real studies...
...enemy, France and England are drawing together. Once again, an armament race is in the offing. Once again, the vital factor in preventing that race is Germany. The next few months will prove whether history repeats itself, or whether the leaders of Germany are willing to cooperate in an endeavor to bring about economic improvement through a subsidence in the international distrust and insecurity that is the arch enemy of progress...
...sale of certain manufactured products and thereby earn 2% commissions (TIME. Dec. 4. 1933). Despite the criticism leveled at it last year by church papers, the Plan has whetted the pious appetites of churchgoers who plan to give the proceeds to Ladies' Aid Societies, home mission boards, Christian Endeavor, et al. Furthermore, devout buyers are assured that manufacturers will devote the profits from such sales toward maintaining "social justice." By his own account. Promoter Goodwin has more than made good his promise to round up 250,000 "Good News Broadcasters" (agents) before proceeding further. Last week Goodwin Corp. said...
...profit system? Bunk! I still continue to believe that individual endeavor will find its incentive in rewards that will come to it, and without the possibility of such rewards our economy will be stultified. It will be impossible for us to take our place in the cosmos of the nations. The expectation that we're going into a state of innocuous desuetude in this country is so silly to me that I just can't be a subscriber...