Word: endeavors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Culminating two years of endeavor to establish this race as a permanent event in the rowing calender, the new cup will be placed in competition for the first time this Spring when the race will be held on the Charles on April 29th. The sup will be presented to President Compton by the president of the Technology student body the night before the event, and he will personally present it to the winning crew the following afternoon. In addition to the cup, there will be a complement of some form on which will be recorded the particulars of each race...
...Perhaps if they had lived and died in peace, working actually being useful--then perhaps they might have aspired to those titles. But how can we grant them to them when they wasted their genius in killing and being killed, in futile effort, vain self-sacrifice, in foolish, cruel endeavor...
...began with what he called "suitable restraint": "Neither Hans Christian Andersen nor Carl Grimm in appealing to the fancies of children ever overtaxed his imagination as President Hoover repeatedly has done in his endeavor to regain the lost favor of the American people. Contrasted, with his addresses, Aesop's Fables deserve to rank as accurate history...
...story of three vaudevillains who wander into the Glogauer Studios and persuade Herman Glogauer to let them teach his actors elocution, remains essentially unchanged. The vaudevillains fail in their endeavor but one of them is rewarded, for unprecedented impertinence to his employer, by being put in complete charge of all Glogauer productions. He (Jack Oakie) distinguishes himself by making a picture, which turns out to be a hit, from the wrong script; by buying 2,000 airplanes so that he can get one free. If Once in a Lifetime is less funny because less angry than it was upon...
...welter of confused thought in Mr. Lindley's article there can be detected a halting recognition that possibly the old principles of the competitive society to which he shouts his allegiance are not perfect. In his references to the "error in direction" in human endeavor and the admission that there is "something rotten in the system,"--in spite of his final conclusion that "there is nothing intrinsically wrong with our system"--Mr. Lindley shows that he is not 100 per cent sold on President Hoover's individualist philosophy of government. He gives no evidence, however, that he realizes the fundamental...