Word: endeavors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Despite the fact that most bankers deny they agitate for lower wages and insist that the cause of a reduction would be economic principle, not personal endeavor, the wage argument is roughly divided between bankers on one side and industrialists on the other. The argument of deflationists is that capital is taking its reduction in the form of impaired dividend payments, that the dollar buys more and Labor must take its loss. They also say a lowered wage-scale will cheapen manufactured goods, unearth new markets...
...system have to be made and the work has to be lessened in order to draw men out. Extra-curricular offices are less enticing because of the greater interest in the regular college work. The increasing sane attitude towards athletics is also evidence of this reawakened scholastic endeavor...
...probable that the veteran of last year's Freshman crew will be seen again in his customary place behind Cassedy. The shakeup, however, leads to a suspicion that Whiteside was not too pleased with the showing of the first eight in the triple regatta last Saturday, and will endeavor to smooth out the Crimson craft before it enters the waters against a dangerous Navy eight...
...propositions are more liberal than the former canon on marriage, and endeavor to "make for happy marriages by teaching the young the meaning of married life." For those who did not have this opportunity, Professor Beale would require a signed certificate that each party had discussed the meaning of marriage with an Episcopalian clergyman before the final ceremony. In these ways he is endeavoring to minimize the possibility of divorce...
...step is one which offers opportunity for important expansion and coordination of the work of the various committees of Brooks House and at the same time furthers a worthy endeavor...