Word: endeavors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stretch at a slow paddle, with Whiteside devoting most of his attention to the latter boat. Armstrong's aggregation, though showing more than usual strength, has lacked the smoothness which is essential over a long course. Whiteside is now polishing up the individual faults in the crew, in an endeavor to perfect the performance of the whole...
...consider the case of "Harvard," a word of two syllables. For Harvard men to endeavor an imitation of the Yale machine-gun chatter would be simply ridiculous. And so, very wisely, they aim at the dignified and sonorous effect: "Harvard! Harvard!! Harvard!!!" Here the accent is on the first syllable with a fine, open vowel sound; the result is vocally excellent...
Even a casual and infrequent perusal of the daily press cannot fail to impress upon the average citizen that his country, a world leader in so many lines of endeavor, must at the same time own to preeminence in the rougher arts of hijacking, racketeering, municipal corruption, and homicide. Headlines keep us in touch with a gangster here entering a hospital to recuperate after a brush with a few other thugs, or with another resisting with lead the intrusion of some scores of New York police into his apartment. And the past year has seen an unusually large number...
...because changing conditions and new elements are sure to arise at any moment and any scheme proposed will be interfered with before it can come to fruition. There fore, in practice, the conduct of foreign affairs takes on something of a juridical character, in that the persons concerned must endeavor to settle cases as they arise, considering both precedent and expediency in the light of the new conditions which may surround the problem at the moment of decision. All the rest of the diplomatist's occupation is only incident to enabling him, in urgent cases, to act promptly and wisely...
...meeting at Dillon Field House at 3.30 o'clock this afternoon will inaugurate four days of coucentrated endeavor towards the attainment of an end closely associated with Harvard's reputation as a leader in American education. Members of Phi Beta Kappa who will report, with equipment, at this hour are to be faced with the problem of atoning for a crushing baseball defeat at the hands of Yale's leading scholars last spring: and those who hold that excellence in athletics is paralleled by excellence in intellectual accomplishment, will feel called upon to do their utmost to enable Harvard...