Word: endeavors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which was to transform our dress into steel, and weld the metal into a tool, which, though worthless in itself, could act as an instrument through which might be transmitted that most glorious of clarion calls against intolerance, bigotry and injustice, that ringing, heartfelt appeal for liberty, that supreme endeavor of the human mind to pierce the outer encircling darkness,--the Ivy Oration...
...ballot indicating whether or not the voter is sympathetic to the Roosevelt policies so far, may lead to some ambiguity in interpreting the results. The policies of the Roosevelt regime have been so far-reaching in scope that they have affected practically all contemporary fields of human endeavor, including the social, economic, and political. Hence, the diversity of opinion with which the New Deal has so far been received and which makes it all but impossible to express unqualified approval or disapproval of its methods. The liberal who is repelled by quasi-regimentation of industry through codes may nevertheless...
...statement he had instructed Ambassador Grew to deliver to the Japanese Foreign Office. Politely but forcefully it warned Japan against trying to establish hegemony in the Far East by stubbing other people's toes. The warning: ". . . No nation can, without the assent of other nations concerned, rightfully endeavor to make conclusive its will in a situation where there are involved the rights, the obligations and the legitimate interests of other sovereign states." When on May Day the Japanese Government finally published the Hirota note in Japan, it pointedly ignored Secretary Hull's declaration...
Encountering two of its stiffest adversaries, Columbia and Pennsylvania, in the short space of two days, 9 members of the undefeated Varsity not team accompanied by Coach Harry Cowles and Manager Alden Bryan left town yesterday in an endeavor to stretch their winning streak to five straight. The Crimson racquet wielders will meet Pennsylvania at Philadelphia this afternoon and Columbia at New York tomorrow afternoon. The Harvard players who went on the trip are S. Ellsworth Davenport, III, '34, John F. Ray '34, Frank W. Jones, Jr. '35, Franklin P. Whitbeck '35, August C. Helmholz '36, Germain G. Glidden...
...feel from the depth of my heart, for the wonderful article in March issue of FORTUNE on the subject of "Arms and the Men." I feel that your courage in this matter is doing more to set forward the cause of world peace than any single bit of literary endeavor that has been released...