Word: endeavour
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...Business Administration handed out $10,000 and a gold medal. Money and medal came from a fund established in 1923 by the late Edward William Bok of the Ladies' Home Journal, the Florida bird-sanctuary, third-person autobiography. Awards are for excellence in various aspects of advertising endeavour. Cash-winners included...
...been recently achieved up Pike's Peak. . . . No, Sir . . . not on your life. I seem to have heard also of publicity loving individuals who like to dance a marathon from Worcester to Boston, Mass, and also . . . what about those others who, perhaps on the spur of the moment endeavour to spend the rest of their lives on the top of a flagpole. DANIEL J. NEAL Late of London, England Boston, Mass...
...fall indeed. The spontaneity of a Yale or Princeton issue, the "Evening Graphite" or the "Daily Prints-anything" fortunately intervenes occasionally to tide over the barrenness of the customary publication, but the laurels are fast fading upon the tortured brow of college journalism in this particular field of endeavour, and it may be said that its success will only follow in the footsteps of its comparative rarity...
...should compete. The club has been at some difficulty since the Faculty stopped its Christmas trip, in developing the best organization that the University can produce. Yet last year it was highly successful. This season it wishes to attain at least its usual excellence and in its endeavour to do so should receive from each student whatever aid he can lend. Those who can sing can best give aid by taking part in the trial tonight...
...endeavour to combine the beauties of all literature in one produced heterogeneousness in form and matter. It was a mistake to transplant the poetic life of the middle ages into the present, and instead of giving a poetic hue to our modern life, to make poetry the focus of all human activity. A modern liter ature which deals exclusively in mediaeval ideas may be popular for a time as a curiosify, but it can not satisfy the taste of a modern nation for a long time...