Word: endeavors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...endeavor to develop speed in carrying out of assignments, Coach Horween yesterday sent his first string eleven through a hard offensive and defensive scrimmage with the seconds. No chain lines were used, and no record was kept of downs or yardage, but the developing of speed was the chief object of the workout...
...Success but Achievement is Author Pitkin's theme. "Achievement is distinguished successful endeavor, usually in the face of difficulties. As such it always possesses two characteristics: first, a certain superiority of aim; and, secondly, exceptional skill in execution." For Achievement three ingredients are necessary: the Wish, the Chance, the Man. Says Pitkin: a man should discover his capabilities, capitalize them to the utmost, but not try something for which nature has unfitted him. Many and varied are his examples of achievement, of nonachievement. Some of them...
...endeavor to explain Mr. Babbitt's humanism here would be impertinent. Whoever takes his course may see for himself, if he likes. Suffice it to say that Mr. Babbitt is a preacher of proportion and the golden mean. Like the ancient Greeks, he takes as his motto: "Nothing too much". All external standards, such as religion, he throws overboard, and appeals to the wisdom of human experience as the only rule to order life. He shuns as the plague all the emotional ecstasies that break down the rigid self-discipline which is his prescription for all humanity...
...sorted. Presently Thomas M. Sheehy of Chicago rose and in a hushed silence read a list of names and a list of dances. Thus were announced four dances and one novelty (from a field of 60) which the Dancing Masters of America have officially elected to sponsor and will endeavor to popularize throughout the land...
...police lathi (sticks)-but only a handful of the Hindus broke and ran, while not a Sikh stirred. Women, whom the police were ordered not to strike, rushed to try and put themselves in the way of blows. Correspondent Farson saw one woman hold up her baby and endeavor to secure for it a crack on the head. When he expressed his horror to her through an interpreter she remained unmoved, anxious to sacrifice her babe to the Cause...