Word: striven
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rendering of Don Quixote, Putnam says: "I have striven to avoid . . . an antiquated style and vocabulary and . . . any modernism that would . . . savor of flippancy." He is diffident about the result ("though I think I do these translations better as I grow older"), but need not be: it is one of the triumphs of the translator's trade...
...theory of how this should be accomplished has been evolved from the experience of the past, and, according to many of West Point's critics, the past is still the dominant factor in the standards striven for. Certainly tradition is present everywhere, and a conscious attempt is made to impress the incoming Plebe with its importance. Not only the collection of battle flags in the Chapel or the many statues and monuments to the dead are there to remind him of "the long, grey line" of Cadets that have preceded him, but such customs as the "Plebe system" itself contribute...
...significant increase at the high-school level. In 1930 the Catholics taught 241,869 boys & girls between ninth and twelfth grade. The figure is now nearly 490,000-more than double. Last week the principal of Stepinac High, short, amiable Father Joseph C. Krug, explained why Catholics have striven so hard for this increase. Said...
Under the Sea. Typical of the new-day miners who have striven to boost production is John MacPherson, who lives in an eight-room house in Villa Nova outside Glace Bay. Last week "Tossy" MacPherson, father of seven girls and a boy, was on the night trick. He slept until midday, had a noon meal and then, carrying his supper in a lunch box, walked a quarter-mile to Dosco's Sydney & Louisburg Railway to catch the "Hobo," a work-train of boxcars fitted with benches...
...current" number of the one-man, leftish magazine Politics, which had valiantly striven to come out monthly, was already several months late. And it wasn't ready yet. So, in a "personal letter to 2,500" subscribers, Yaleman ('28) and Editor Dwight Macdonald gave them a frank explanation...