Word: endeavoured
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There is a strange air about these discussions; they do not attack social problems in general; they are interested only in the predicament in which young men of a certain class suddenly and bewilderingly find themselves. The authors do not endeavour to theorize on a plane of universality; whatever else they may be, they are conspicuously honest, and understand that their problem is simply to ascertain where, if anywhere at all, they and men like them belong...
...these students, most of whom steadfastedly maintain this belief throughout college, diversification of studies would vastly increase the utility of college life. Particularly for members of this group, specialization in one field is no guarantee that they will want or be able to continue in the same lines of endeavour after graduation...
...game into his charges. Now it seems that he has succeeded. The last period victory that his merry men dragged down on Saturday must have afforded him considerable satisfaction, as it did to those players who, despite two years of bi-weekly defeat, continued to come out and to endeavour to perfect some kind of a team...
...forces from his duty or allegiance to His Majesty," then a warrant may be issued authorizing police ("if necessary, by force") to "search the premises or place and every person found therein, and to seize anything found on the premises or place or on any person." Seduction or mere "endeavour to seduce" His Majesty's forces from duty or allegiance to His Majesty by any means whatsoever is also made a crime...
...England . . . can never win the America's Cup until we make it a business, too." He said that he had flown a protest flag in the last race principally to gain a hearing for his previous protest, had withdrawn it because after leading at the start, Endeavour had been fairly beaten in the race. To newshawks he announced that he would never challenge for the Cup again. While a party at Newport's Clambake Club broke up in a row over whether the Committee should have heard the Sopwith protest and Designer Charles G. Nicholson of Endeavour went...