Word: strives
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University of Iowa has just organized a school of religion in which earnest men will strive to teach religion as a dynamic force in life, rather than as a matter of creed, tenets, rites, thaumaturgy or priestcraft. At this aim, endorsed by the Presbyterian Board of Christian Education, the Presbyterian, "an official organ of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America," last week scoffed...
With but one track victory over Yale to its credit since 1915, Harvard will send to squad of athletes to New Haven today who will strive for a long delayed Crimson triumph. Last year a brilliant but poorly balanced Harvard team came within a third of a point of defeating the powerful Eli; and this year, although still rated as the underdogs, the University track men seem nearer than ever to their goal of victory over their ancient rivals...
Perhaps a quiet word passed between Dictator Mussolini and the Count that Il Duce will strive to bring France and Britain round to permitting the restoration of a Habsburg king in Hungary, something Hungarians ardently desire (TIME, Nov. 29, Jan. 24). Since the time is not ripe for airing that project, however, all that Il Duce gave Count Bethlen last week by way of a "bonus" in black and white was an Italian note announcing that the Government of Italy will take steps to arrange with the Government of Jugoslavia for the reduced duty passage through Jugoslavia of Hungarian goods...
...arts and no where in the arts more obviously than in music. Wagner for example was looked upon by many of our grandparents in the same way in which the more conservative members of the present generation look upon the cacaphonus mechanics of modern workers in sound who strive for greater, realism by introducing automobile horns and engine bells into their scores...
...Chicago Americans; Rogers Hornsby, slugger, manager of 1926 World's Champion St. Louis Nationals, has gone to the New York Nationals in trade for Frank Francis Frisch, famed for speed, and James Joseph Ring; Tris E. Speaker, peerless ball-hawk, has laid aside Cleveland togs after eleven years, will strive in behalf of the Washington club; lesser luminaries, too numerous to catalogue, have shifted their paid allegiance from one organization to another. The shuffling process has caused predictors to wax prolific...