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Word: endeavors (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Conference put two simple questions to its members: Will they agree to any serious reduction of armaments and will they submit to any control? [see p. 16]. . . . Such an answer would be of decisive importance and would sound the death knell of the Conference and therefore perhaps Geneva will endeavor to avoid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Caviar to Litvinoff | 12/4/1933 | See Source »

Sirs: You certainly have succeeded in your endeavor to foster a subtle propaganda for the of race hatred in the ranks of your readers, as shown by the title under the picture of Mr. Samuel Untermyer, on p. 10 of your issue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 27, 1933 | 11/27/1933 | See Source »

Though Harvard is the logical climax of the novel it is by no means the only peak. For, after all, who at Harvard is ordinary and does ordinary things? Her scholars devote their lives to great things, at any rate to recording and commenting upon them, in an heroic endeavor to persuade greatness to yield its secret. And the point of Hoffman's novel is that life can be led without greatness, for life contains enough besides to be always interesting and intense. There is pathos, as the story, of the old Grandmother shows; there is evil, as the story...

Author: By W. E. H., | Title: The Crimson Bookshelf | 11/22/1933 | See Source »

...endeavor to consider the possibility of changes in football rules for next year, the National Rules Committee, of which William J. Bingham '16 is the New England representative, has sent a questionnaire to football coaches all over the country...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CHANGES IN FOOTBALL RULES CONTEMPLATED | 11/13/1933 | See Source »

...must have full cabin accommodations for owners and crew, and must have gear-handling equipment on deck (not below deck as on Harold Stirling Vanderbilt's sleek Cup-winner Enterprise). Mr. Sopwith commissioned Designer Nicholson to build him a yacht even faster than Velsheda. He will call her Endeavor and, contrary to British custom, in Cup challenges, he may take the helm himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Sopwith's Endeavor | 10/30/1933 | See Source »

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