Word: strive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first few months of operation. "I'll be editor & publisher," explained McKinnon, "but Field will still have a minority interest, which I'll have an option to buy. The staff is so overloaded it's pathetic. The whole thing lacks coordination and spark. I will strive to present the news as it is, not as we wish it were. PM will continue to be a liberal paper, but will not be a left-wing paper...
...With Every Nerve." At London, Britain's Foreign Minister Ernest Bevin summed up the Western position. He said: "If a settlement is to be blocked every time we try, we cannot go on forever with chaos in Europe as it is now. ... I shall strive with every nerve and every effort to get a politically united Germany. . . . But if in the end peace is denied, then surely you cannot expect us at this stage to stand still with Western Europe in chaos and not do anything...
Seventh-Day Adventists take their separateness seriously. They do no "unnecessary" work on Saturdays (their Sabbath) and refuse to "strive" against their fellow men. During World War II the U.S. Army came to terms with them. Now U.S. labor is following suit...
...compliment to Humanities 12a--"Great Artist." This course should concern itself not only with great composers and musical works of the past, but should attempt to approach music from a more modern view, analyzing it as an outpouring of the emotions and social terminant. Also, it should strive to link up music with the other humanistic fields of art and literature. It should try to teach some understanding of the principles of the main forms and modes of musical expression, such as the sonata and symphony. By making the course only a semester in duration, the Committee on General Education...
Morris, a 27 year old Navy veteran who will graduate in February, plans, if elected, to strive for the adoption of the recommendations of a $25,000 survey of the Cambridge school system made last June...