Word: endeavors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President talked to Correspondent Wallen privately. Next day the Herald Tribune carried a hesitant story to the effect that the President had "turned thumbs down only on the specific plan of revision suggested by the Commission," that he was still open-minded on other proposals. The White House endeavor to make President Hoover seem less Dry was carried further when Secretary Walter Newton assembled newsmen and solemnly explained?anonymously?that the President had been "misrepresented," that the door was not closed to other Wet ideas. Joining in the effort to "explain" the President's position was his good friend, Journalist...
This can hardly be held against it, as long as it amuses, and yet comparing it to "The Bachelor Father," another and much more amusing endeavor of Dr. Belasco's, it ends up far in the ruck. The thin matter, of which the play is cast, happens in this case to be illegitimacy of birth, but in this instance it is prospective not retrospective...
...Although the recent financial slump has had a certain effect upon the opportunities of student employment this coming summer," R. T. Sharpe '28, acting secretary of the Student Employment Bureau stated yesterday "the redoubled efforts of the Bureau have kept open most of the fields of endeavor, and have disclosed several new openings...
...Wickersham report, product of more than nineteen months of expert investigation, is a stand-off pure and simple. Whatever the endeavor, the result is a document that is all things to all men. Read one way, neither wets nor dry can extract much solace from it; read another, both can find comfort in it, the wets because nearly all of the individual opinions favor their side of the cause, and the dry because the report as a whole stands for the existing order of things...
...effort to promote interest in foreign civilizations and to foster cultural relationships between America and other nations is by no means an innovation. But as a definite movement the endeavor has recently gained considerable momentum. "Maisons", "Hauser", and "Casas" have been successfully established at Columbia, and there are those colleges that have inaugurated foreign study units by means of which students may spend the Junior year at a continental capital and receive credit for the work done abroad. These devices are but ramifications of the original plan of inviting foreign students to enroll at American universities...