Word: striven
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...months have statesmen of the Great Powers striven so hard and so confusedly as they strove last week, turning the concert of nations into a jazz symphony of Peace & War, now sweet, now wild...
Last year, as acting Mayor for 16 weeks after James John Walker's flight, clean-cut, grinning little Joseph Vincent McKee was the idol, the White Hope of thousands of New Yorkers who mortally hate & fear the yoke of Tammany. He had striven for municipal economies. Although he prided himself on his Democratic regularity, in Board of Estimate meetings he did not seem afraid to swap punches with Tammany. When bumbling John Patrick O'Brien was propped up in the special Mayoral election last November by Tammany, many a citizen was puzzled at Mr. McKee's unwillingness...
Along with the decimation, in the face of legitimate beer, of the ranks of the campus bootlegger, another kind of bootlegger appears destined for gradual oblivion: the cramming school tutor. For years and years college and university authorities have striven with scant success (save in the case of Professor John L. Lowes, of Harvard, who allows students in his courses to bring all their text books into examinations) to circumvent the wily tutor. The Widow Nolan at Cambridge, Johnny Hun at Princeton, and Rosie at New Haven could seldom be outwitted. They perfected systems of question spotting that would drive...
With this heterogeneous mass Professor Merriman has striven nobly, by means of entry suppers and other gatherings, and largely to his efforts and aloof geniality may be attributed the progress of the House during the past year. In spite of the partly warranted criticisms on the success of the tutors in "preserving themselves from too frequent student contact," these much maligned gentlemen, while confining themselves fairly closely to their own dining table, have not been inactive in other relations with students. The energy and interest of Professor Matthiessen and Dr. Spencer were largely responsible for the extraordinary success...
...diligently had Tammany workers striven to bolster up the O'Brien ballot during the election, with an eye to strengthening his 193,3 chances, that last week 44 New York City polls officials were indicted for filing false returns...