Word: endeavors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...four years of depression, room rents and food prices have been kept at figures substantially above what many undergraduates could afford to pay. The effect has been to impose a crushing burden on the inadequate scholarship and loan funds, to drive students to all sorts of expedients in an endeavor to make both ends meet, and finally to force not a few to give up then college education or to seek it at some less expensive institution...
Unstinted diligence on the part of Captain deGive in the nets, and determined although futile endeavor displayed by the rest of the team were not sufficient to halt the avalanches of powerful rushes of the McGill sextet as the Scarlet horde swamped the Crimson skaters to the tune of 12-2 in the Boston Garden last night...
...however, clear that Germany by her withdrawal from the League has placed herself, with respect to that organization, in the same situation which is occupied by the United States of America. If the United States is in the position to co-operate with the League in an endeavor to bring about disarmament, the same possibility will be open for Germany, in case a serious effort in that direction should eventually be made. As the German Foreign Minister has expressly stated, the purpose of the German Government in departing from the League is not to turn its back on a policy...
Science and history seem to be the most popular fields of literary endeavor, each of these subjects having 44 works on the list. There are 31 books pertaining to legal subjects, 29 on economic subjects, and 28 works of fiction. The other principal fields follow in order...
...borrowed textbooks for just this occasion. When the Examination began, he propped said books upon his desk and plied away prodigiously, without interruption, for some fifteen minutes. Tiring of the copyist's art, he then began peering at his neighbors' efforts. To no avail. After ten minutes of futile endeavor, he collected his belongings, strode to the door, and handed in his work. As he prepared to leave, the proctor called him back. Slightly perturbed, he returned, and stood, looking. "You have not signed your bluebook," the menial said. And that...