Word: endeavors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This plan calls for a reduction to a minimum of the cultivation of decorative plants such as horticultural forms and hybrids, double roses, fancy tulips, and other artificial varieties. This entire phase of horticultural endeavor is, however, being taken up by the newly formed Lexington Botanic Garden which is being supported by the Garden clubs and interested persons...
...would be a real loss to the world," he continued, "should Italy endeavor, by inaugurating machine production ... to eliminate individual craftsmanship ... to do away with her Venetian glass or lace ... her extraordinarily fine leather and stone or wood work." The "whole Ameri can people," he insisted, is "furnish [ing] its homes with furniture of Italian make or design." Indeed, "If we [Americans] wish to study the European backgrounds of the American people of 1930, it is no longer sufficient for us simply to visit England ? we must make a trip to Italy as well?
...endeavor to send the total of votes cast at Harvard well over the 4000 mark, polling will be continued in the Law School this morning at booths in the both Langdell and Austin Halls. Votes may be cast between 10 and 11.30 o'clock...
Countrary to some prevalent impressions, the CRIMSON has maintained an impartial attitude on the relative merits of this plan; the plan has been given publicity as part of an endeavor to arouse and crystallize undergraduate sentiment, and has been placed on the ballot at the request of the Debating Council. Its part in the general movement arises from its excellent potentialities for argument on a fixed ground...
...next witness was Dr. Daniel Alfred Poling, president of the International Christian Endeavor Society. His prime statistic: Representatives of 3,000,000 Christian Endeavor members had voted 515 to 4 in favor of Prohibition this year. He had, he said, polled 62 nameless college presidents, found 26 who thought student drinking was not general, three who thought it was, one who thought it was increasing. Declared Dr. Poling: "There is less drinking among young people than at any time in the past eight years. Let us stop slandering our sons and daughters! . . . Neither in Washington Square nor in 42nd Street...