Word: endeavors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...diligently to plumb Night Vision's mysteries. His searching hand paused before the shelf and drew down "The Science of General Psychology," by Wheeler, a good and solid book, of some six-hundred pages, fitted with two indices, charmingly adapted to the pose of earnest endeavor. But somehow, as his finger ran down the index, it wavered, passed "Vision, 379-398," and paused only be fore "Vitreous Humor, 382." Vitreous Humor turned out not at all funny, but Helen herself was never more seductive than the index to Wheeler's "Science of Psychology." The subtle poison permeated the Vagabond...
...sell cheap"-always for cash only-and telling the world so in such a way that every other big Manhattan store would dearly love to see them gagged. For years their slogan was. "6% less than elsewhere." until harried by the Better Business Bureau to qualify it thus: "We endeavor (though we are not infallible) to sell our merchandise for at least 6% less than we could if we did not sell exclusively for cash." Macy's competitors saw to it that the Retail Code says: "No retailer shall use advertising which refers inaccurately ... to any competitor...
...Under your wise leadership, may Harvard be a preeminent focus for true scholarship, and patient endeavor to push back a little the veil of mystery that everywhere surrounds us. Here may inspired teachers convince the best of the aspiring youth of this distracted country that man cannot live by bread alone: that in a just estimate of the real values of life, the spiritual far outweighs the material...
...That is why I do not regard the Economic Conference as a failure. . . . You can count on our continued efforts toward world rehabilitation because we are con vinced that a continuation of the work of the World Economic Conference will result in practical good in many fields of joint endeavor...
...China report supports the general contentions of Re-Thinking Missions. The Laymen's Inquiry noted that Christian endeavor is out of line with current Oriental trends and advocated that Christianity concern itself directly with social service and only obliquely with conversion. The sociological work should be carefully coordinated by a super-missionary body representing all important Protestant denominations...