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Word: endeavors (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bring some poetry into painting. That was in. many ways one of the chief effects of the Surrealist movement launched in 1924 by Andre Breton's "Surrealist Manifesto." A pamphlet alone, of course, could not channel the direction of all creative artistic endeavor completely or all at once. Breton was to discover this as early as 1929, when increasing arguments among early Surrealists about the value of automatism began to splinter the group; but in the early 1920s, Breton's writings put forward a new way of looking at life as a whole. Surrealism began as a literary movement...

Author: By Diana R. Laing, | Title: A Surrealist's Metamorphosis | 6/5/1978 | See Source »

...incredible week, he won 23 of 54 races, and people began betting not on the horses but on their rider. Cauthen was clearly something to tug at a horseman's heart, a manifestation of genius, present palpable and future prodigious, that occurs only rarely in any human endeavor. He was a born winner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cauthen: A Born Winner | 5/29/1978 | See Source »

...programs on the agenda proposed by the ad hoe committee include an evaluation of the four introductory courses and their bypasses which will "endeavor to provide a more substantive and insightful analysis of those courses...than is presently available in other course evaluation guides...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student Committee Will Advise Government Majors Next Year | 5/19/1978 | See Source »

...defensive effort proved to be more of a collective endeavor. Field explained: "We tried to force them to pass long so we could come up with the interception, which we did. Also, their accuracy was off, which helped...

Author: By Keith Salkowski, | Title: Laxwomen Stop Dartmouth, 7-4; Mleczko Scores Five Goals | 5/1/1978 | See Source »

...decade. After five-and-a-half years of inactivity, a flare scorched the solar surface, shorting out the South Atlantic and juicing up the aurora borealis as far south as Cambridge. Fortunately, most of the sun's radiant energy reaches the earth in a form more suitable for earthling endeavor...

Author: By Steven A. Wasserman, | Title: Sun Day Sermon | 5/1/1978 | See Source »

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