Word: endeavors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tuan Chi-jui, although without ability and undeserving, assume office as Chief Executive of the Republic of China. I swear that I will endeavor to consolidate the Republican government . . . and raise the nation's standing abroad. I swear the forgoing reverently...
After out-Romanoffing the Romanoffs and frowning on every sort of bourgeois endeavor, Prince Mike, alias Harry Gerguson, has sold out on his numerous menage. Those who read with delight the spritely lines of Alva Johnson in The New Yorker, sketching the miraculous biography of this elegant phoney can hardly believe that Prince has gone the way of Channel swimmers and flag-pole sitters by accepting vaudeville contracts and writing his life story for the tabloids...
...Jobs (Amkino) differs from the run of Russian pictures in the light touch with which its director, Alexander Macharet, has embellished his small chronicle of earnest endeavor by the foreman of a construction gang. This foreman (Nicholas Okhlopkov) is chipper about his methods and proud of his efficiency until a U. S. engineer arrives to work in the same project-the building of a power dam which represents the one opened at Dnieprostroy last autumn. A rivalry arises between the two men in which the Russian, at first thoroughly worsted, struggles to catch up. His efforts, less heroic than amusing...
...Freshmen sought to recover their lead, but instead tell further behind. Jumping at the advantage thus opened, the Jayvee exhibited the fastest play of the evening scoring three times in rapid succession. The last chukker was characterized by desperate and ineffectual attacks by the first-year men, in an endeavor to redeem themselves. Experiences determined the outcome for on the whole there was definitely more potential talent in the Freshman ranks...
...that your solution might vary from my own. ... I have no intention of committing the incoming administration. ... I would be glad if you could designate Mr. Owen D. Young, Colonel House or any other man of your party to sit with the principal officers of this administration in an endeavor to see what steps can be taken to avoid delays of precious time...