Word: strived
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...matriculants at Union must possess an A. B. degree from an accredited college. About 23 years old, each is prepared to spend three years winning the seminary's lowest degree, Bachelor of Divinity. Other degrees a student may strive for are Master of Sacred Theology, Doctor of Theology and, jointly from Union and Columbia University, Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy. (The degree which enables many a clergyman to call himself "Dr." is an honorary one of Doctor of Divinity...
...Christmas formal, the weekend of the Purdue, game, or in the Mask & Wig show rather than the fact that during exam weeks he ordinarily lost ten pounds and annexed a few grey hairs. It is the same with college grads in a studio conference. Confessing no serious intent, they strive to put as much entertaining frivolity as possible in the scenario-dramatizing college life never was meant to be a sad task...
Sailing with his valet for a vacation in Europe, Bethlehem Steelmaster Charles Michael Schwab pontificated: "Don't strive for riches. That's my advice to young...
Union is the first to strive, without discrimination of sex or race, affluence or position, to produce not merely an intelligentsia but a cultivated nation"); 4) a bureaucracy manned largely by unpaid volunteers; 5) "the vocation of leadership" supplied by the Communist Party; 6) the cult of science (unlike those "in command of most other states, the administrators in the Moscow Kremlin genuinely believe in their professed faith. And their professed faith is in science"); 7) "anti-godism"; 8) the emergence of a new morality ("the recognition of a universal individual indebtedness" to society). These features, in the Webbs...
...Taussig gives the following advice to doctors who find themselves called upon to perform therapeutic abortions: "Since the physician must in every case of abortion strive to keep his name clear of any suspicion of malpractice, it is naturally preferable for him to treat every patient with this condition in a hospital, where records are kept and the presence of nurse or interne prevents any possible efforts at blackmailing by unscrupulous persons. It is relatively easy for a man in city practice to carry this out, but in a very considerable number of cases handled in country or small town...