Word: strived
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...North African coast, Anderson has been a soldier most of his life; like Sir Bernard, is a pious man on whom the mark of a religious background is deep. Said he to his soldiers: "Let us unashamedly and humbly ask God's help in our endeavors and strive to deserve it." Like many of his devoted, knobby-kneed Scotsmen and war-hardened Englishmen, he is a veteran of Dunkirk...
...when one hemisphere can indulge in an ignorant patronizing approach to the other half of the globe is fast waning. Willkie has felt the upsurge of this new ideal, and has recognized its strength. He is the first independent spokesman of free men, and of men who still must strive for freedom. The Asiatic and the African are stirring, while the myth of "Western Supremacy" slowly withers...
...officer candidates each year are denied the college education vital to their training. Inter-service competition in the nation's college is, apparently, to continue, for the report never considers an over-all scheme for procurement of military and civilian personnel. Meanwhile deferments grow longer as the services strive to fill uncoordinated quotas...
Chin Up. The Battle of the Pacific has demonstrated the need for flyers who can handle themselves in water. Preflight cadets are taught to swim in waterlogged uniforms, to master the chin-up breast stroke instead of the crawl, to swim under water, to strive for endurance rather than speed. At the end of the three-month course, each man should be able to stay afloat for five hours...
...Even though it is impossible to know all there is to know," says the report in discussing the liberal education, "the liberally educated man should at least know what there is to know. He should strive to arrive at the state where more knowledge is merely a matter of facts to be added to an already attained skeleton of understanding." An "a la carte" selection of courses will no more provide the general picture of all knowledge necessary for a well-rounded education than an over concentration in one particular field...