Word: endeavors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...debate with a ten-minute argument in which he emphasized the value of a classical education, which takes an objective view of the whole span of modern events with an eye to classical parallel situations. He also asserted that the classical writers treated of the general phases of human endeavor and that since our modern civilization is based on cold fact, we need the classics as a balance...
Over the long run the scarcity of men of the caliber of Dean Matthews has been only too obvious. In the past few years Dean Sperry has followed two contradictory lines of approach; he has gone far and wide in an endeavor to find really good men, and he has at the same time insisted on giving local pastors a chance to cultivate the Harvard field. While some of these are excellent men, others are invited merely because they have a "stake in the Harvard community," or because such invitations have been extended in the past--and the popularity...
Sports took first place among the activities with 35 per cent of the voters favoring one or more athletic endeavor. In second place, at 30 per cent, were the publications. Phillips Brooks House, social service center, placed third with 8 per cent as a choice for profitable occupation, while music finished just out of the money at 7 per cent in a photo finish over managing, which had 6 1-2 per cent devotes. The Student Union, political forum, debating, and dramatics ran a dead heat at 4 per cent...
...Vienna, Otto Neurath headed a group of thinkers known as the "Viennese Circle," who decided that Science with a capital S should have a unified language and should be in fact a unified human endeavor. Out of this grew a series of yearly congresses on unified science, held in Prague, Paris, Copenhagen, Cambridge, and attended by scholars from many lands. Dr. Neurath's plan of an International Encyclopedia of Unified Science moved toward fruition. This large project was not intended to impose an arbitrary super-system on all the branches of learning, or to suppress honest controversy over...
Taking this at its face value, thin-lipped Cinema Tsar Will Hays replied: "Motion-picture producers, wholesale distributors and leading exhibitors of the nation will generally welcome the prospect of a comprehensive, fair and conclusive endeavor to clarify the application of existing laws to the trade customs inherent in the development of the motion-picture industry...