Word: endeavors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...convention of the Christian Endeavor was held yesterday at Harvard...
...possibly agriculture. Surely the food industries as a whole are more important than the dairy products industry alone, yet there are 60 or more universities or colleges training young men and women for the dairy products industries and only three or four offering training in the larger field of endeavor. Thus the canning industry must, in general, recruit its personnel from other fields; the same is true of the dehydrated and frozen food, refrigeration, fermentation and other industrial lines. Practically the only training now given in foods in this country is in departments of home economics. I believe that more...
...work than young ones, are graded more severely. In the beginning, concentrators peruse or hear read for three minutes a single paragraph, such as one dealing with the palindrome ("Madam, I'm Adam"). Then for seven minutes they mull over questions based on the paragraph, while their teachers endeavor to muddle them by conversing loudly. Later the class lasts longer-15 minutes for study, 15 for answers-with harder work to do: mathematical examples, psalms or poetry to be learned, a picture to be gazed at. The distractions get worse & worse: a vacuum cleaner buzzing, an alarm clock...
...Huston) drinks raw alcohol in large quantities. It drives him so wild that he beats his wife to death. Dorothy Jordan and Robert Young are drawn together by their mutual hate of alcohol. When they marry, Young joins the Federal Prohibition force. He soon learns the futility of his endeavor from a seasoned agent of the law (Jimmy Durante). Gangsters try to kill him. He is saved by Durante at the lamentable expense of Durante's own life. But this is only a minim of catastrophe. The heroine's brother goes blind from poison booze. The hero...
Glancing through the various specimens of journalistic endeavor that are the product of some of our more august contemporaries, we are lead to the conviction that culture of the collegiate Fourth Estate in the more urban and intellectually polished sections of our eastern United States is highly chimerical. Specifically do we refer to the current front pages of the "Daily Princetonian" and the "Harvard Crimson," whose make-ups bear voluminous descriptive stories of basketball games, alumni meetings, and polo contests, with too infrequent reference to matters of national and international import...