Search Details

Word: endeavors (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...what may be a fruitless endeavor, the Freshman Union management has limited the amount of fruit per person to two pieces per meal in order to curb waste and theft...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: An Apple a Day Not Much More | 10/25/1985 | See Source »

...would not wish to end (these written answers) on a negative note. I should like to convey to the readers of your magazine wishes of good endeavor, happiness and a peaceful future. On behalf of the Soviet leadership and the Soviet people, I would like once again to tell all Americans the most important thing they should know: war will not come from the Soviet Union. We will never start...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Interview with Mikhail Gorbachev | 9/9/1985 | See Source »

Still, few physicians are openly critical of the implants; many point out that pioneering efforts in open-heart surgery and human heart transplants also met with many disappointments and failures. "This is a new technical endeavor, and naturally it is going to be fraught with complications," observes Dr. Floyd Loop, chief of cardiac surgery at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation. Loop is confident that "with a few more cases" DeVries and his colleagues will learn to control problems like bleeding. Transplant Surgeon Philip Oyer of Stanford concurs. Says he: "This is not the time to say stop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Another Setback in Louisville | 5/6/1985 | See Source »

...tragedy, both are evoked and invoked with consummate artistry clarity and immediacy: "And as I see these things in the light of lamp, all perishable and transient, how bound up I know I am to all that is human endeavor, to all that past and to all that shall be, to all that shall be lost and leave no trace," Long before this penultimate sentence, the vision is clear, through this prose that is not only a lens but a prism...

Author: By Yoon SUN Lee, | Title: Magical Words | 4/11/1985 | See Source »

...noxious anti-Semitic essay Jewry in Music, yet who also allowed Hermann Levi to conduct the premiere of the Christian epic Parsifal at Bayreuth. Faust, the national symbol, might be speaking for both Luther and Wagner when he says at the beginning of Goethe's play, "With keen endeavor I have studied philosophy, jurisprudence and medicine, and even, alas, theology. And yet here I stand, a poor fool no wiser than I was before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Bach and Handel At the Wall | 3/25/1985 | See Source »

Previous | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | Next