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...Lord God, when Thou givest to Thy. servants to endeavour any great matter, grant us also to know that it is not the beginning, but the continuing of the same until it be thoroughly finished which yieldeth the true glory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Sep. 17, 1945 | 9/17/1945 | See Source »

...beyond like Stonehenge. . . . He could make no compromise with the English he called 'Victorian and Costermongery.' Forty years ago he wrote to Doctor Hogarth: 'My main intention was not so much the setting forth of personal wanderings among a people of biblical interest as the ideal endeavour to continue the older tradition of Chaucer and Spenser, resisting to my power the decadence of the English language...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Doughty Centennial | 9/6/1943 | See Source »

Instituted for the first time this fall, the Harvard Service Fund will endeavour to cover all charities, thus freeing students from the soliciting of many different organizations. In order to fulfill this work, as well as meet the demands of new charities, and increased war budgets, the Fund will ask this year for a contribution of seven dollars per student...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STUDENT SERVICE FUND MET BY LOCAL, NATIONAL CHARITIES | 9/25/1942 | See Source »

...past many students of design have taken courses in Government or Economics under the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, but the new department centralized under the control of Professor Gaus, will endeavour to tie all these subjects into the graduate courses of regional design. The student of planning can no longer be a mere theorist, he must now be trained in government and administration...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BROAD COURSE IN REGIONAL DESIGN OPENS | 5/6/1942 | See Source »

...must drop the holier-than-thou attitude both of Hoover in his "American Crusade" and of the Luce-thinking interventionists who envision an Anglo-American world. Let's not be prevented by hatreds and chauvinism from making this war the really allembracing endeavour that it is. Let's recognize that we are one nation of many, and to attain our ends we must make concessions to the interests of others...

Author: By J. W. Ballantine, | Title: CABBAGES AND KINGS | 2/5/1942 | See Source »

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