Word: strived
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bunin has attained a realism that many of his contemporaries strive to do by more circuitous means and psychological devices but his product is more natural, readable, and understanding...
...Labor was not satisfied last week but it accepted with good grace a Presidential decision rather than embarrass its friend Franklin Roosevelt. The automobile code expired and Labor wanted a public hearing to make a fight against the code's "merit" clause, to strive to get a 30-hour week, higher wages. Manufacturers were adamant in insisting they would renew the code only if such questions were not broached. The President extended the code for three months without a hearing, but said he was going to order a Federal inquiry into the problem of stabilizing automobile employment, an inquiry that...
...CRIMSON, and even lay myself open to the charge of writing another sarcastic and peevish communication. Mr. Cherington's letter was, of course, quite free from these faults which marred my recent letter on the Critic, and since I feel that a reply is in order, I shall strive to attain the level of gentlemanly polemic that he set yesterday...
...hinted that his country would "mobilize" should Otto be restored. No less restive are Kings Carol of Rumania and Alexander of Jugoslavia. The reason is simple: all three Little Entente countries contain huge slices of the old-time Habsburg realm of Austria-Hungary, slices which a Habsburg Kaiser would strive with all his Most Apostolic might to recover. Catholics in the said slices might conceivably wish to place themselves under Otto's sceptre, might start most troublesome secession movements within the Little Entente...
There began the greatest naval battle of modern times-a battle that for grand strategy surpassed Santiago seven years before, for decisiveness outclassed Jutland eleven years later. It was the kind of battle for which nations and navies build and spend and strive and dream for generations...