Word: strives
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...single characteristic of this number shows that it belongs to the academic world. This is the high percentage of articles that strive to reproduce the phrasing and atmosphere of other times--of American Revolutionary days, or of England in the age of Puck of Pooks Hill. This sort of thing is, next to translating, one of the best possible fields for literary experimenting, largely because nothing, except translating, is more difficult to do well. That the efforts of the Advocate's contributors are passable, is high praise. Their common failing is less their individual fault than that of the readers...
...news." If your comments cannot be more intelligent I suggest you borrow a leaf from the Nation's book and give us your foreign news in the manner of that journal's "International Relations Section." (But if you did I suppose you'd never reach the point you strive for when you too shall be able to say: "One out of every three yokels reads this magazine...
Coach E. L. Farrell addressed the gathering and outlined the training rules. "The first and one of the biggest obstacles of the squad in the early season is the conquest of that old rival studies," declared Farrell, "and we must strive to overcome this factor which always forces us to lose some of our best prospects...
...encyclical, the latest of a series sent out by the 259 popes, is unusually aggressive in the Church's cause. It exhorts the faithful to "militate courageously under the banners of Christ the King, to go back with apostolic fervor to the rebels and misguided ones and strive to maintain the rights of God himself intact," for "when in international meetings and parliaments the sweet name of our Redeemer is passed in shameful silence it is highly necessary to acclaim it publicly, announcing everywhere the rights of His sovereign dignity and power...
...face of this record Captain Cumings and his team will strive to repeat last year's win over the invaders. Last year's Crimson squad, which humbled the Toronto six for the first time since 1913, by a 2 to 1 margin, was in much the same condition as this year's team. The skaters started slowly in the first two games but were coming along fast at the time of the Toronto game. The showing of Coach Bigelow's men in the McGill game Saturday night proved them a dangerous team. McGill has won once and lost once with...