Word: endeavour
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...preface to the bound volume of Time's first six issues, which listed such contributors as Oscar Wilde, Bret Harte and W. S. Gilbert (The Bab Ballads), Yates wrote: "Believing that a monthly magazine should bear as close a relation as possible to contemporary events, I shall endeavour to supply my readers with materials which are of contemporary interest. National institutions will be examined and described-not as abstractions, but as concrete realities; and current affairs-whether in the region of science, art, literature, society, or politics-will be discussed from no purely theoretical standpoint. That is what...
Parts of Mr. Orton's ears were missing. Captain James Cook of H.M.S. Endeavour was very much upset; his ship's clerk had been grossly abused. The poor fellow had gone to bed drunk in the ordinary way, and then someone had crept into his cabin and cropped his ears. There had been no witnesses, but on circumstantial evidence Captain Cook suspended a midshipman from duty for three weeks...
...midshipman's punishment would have been much harsher if Cook had found more proof. Nonetheless, there were extenuating circumstances. The Endeavour was about 98 ft. long, and the 90 or so men aboard her had been away from home port for almost two years. It was not surprising that they sometimes got on each other's nerves. More noteworthy was the fact that, on each of his three long voyages of Pacific exploration, able, sharp-eyed Captain Cook ran the efficient, generally happy ship that...
Bemusing News. Officially, the Cook expedition which left England in 1768 was purely scientific; the party had been sent into the Pacific to observe the transit of the planet Venus, thus collect data to help astronomers calculate the distance between the earth and the sun. But in fact, the Endeavour's cruise was a matter of empire. The French had just lost Canada and, with an urge to make up for it somehow, were searching for the great new continent that was still believed to lie in the South Pacific between New Zealand and South America. If there...
Around here it is the custom to gloat for long paragraphs over the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Of all the major orchestras in the country, only this one has a great place in the hearts of the local populace; only this one is a center of aesthetic endeavour. But once it has been said that Koussevitzky's group is the finest symphony orchestra in the world, that...