Word: strives
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Coach Newell's 150-pound B crew left yesterday morning for New Haven where it will strive to outdo the efforts of corresponding crews from Yale and Princeton. This crew secured the right to represent the University in this event it week ago Thursday, prior to the four length defeat by the Pennsylvania light crew last Monday...
...hope of pecuniary profit. The establishment of prizes, such as the Pulitzer and Carnegie awards whose significance is largely honorary, is a step toward substituting a more altruistic spur for the traditional goad of gain in the common walks of life. When the "man on the street" will strive as cagerly for such prizes as the student does for his major letter--or the graduate for his scholarship--the schemes of Bellamy and Wells may begin to be practicable...
Meanwhile, War Lord Léon Trotsky raged in Moscow. "We will never agree that the Bessarabian workmen and peasants shall remain under the iron heel of the Rumanian nobles. We will not make war and we will strive to avoid it by all means. This, however, does not mean that we agree to the present situation. The Soviet Government will use all its power to liquidate the conflict peacefully. If its efforts are unsuccessful, however, this will be due to a desire on the part of the other side to aggravate the situation...
...every man, whether a pacifist or an opportunist," continued the speaker, "by the League of Nations or by the World Court,--let him strive to abolish war and to substitute trial by jury for trial by battle. Let every man obey his own individual conscience, even to the point of refusing to obey his country's orders--let him refuse to fight, if he thinks it evil. The abolitionists won their fight for slavery against the efforts of a united nation; why cannot we win with such a message to the world?", he concluded...
Maillol attempts a direct treatment of essential form and line in an effort to interpret the inner truth which he and Matisse strive to dissect. The distorted drawing and crude modelling is the result of artistic conviction, rather than inability to draw or chisel...