Word: strives
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sohn, speaking before an informal graduate student group in the Peabody Room of Phillips Brooks House, also disclosed that the UWF would strive to interest state legislatures in its aims to bring about a national convention. Such a convention would amend the Constitution to make it compatible with the concepts of world government...
...largest of the Christian sects and thus, while encouraging all to enter 'the one ark of salvation,' remain, defending its traditional privileges and furthering its corporate interests, engrossed in its own affairs? Or will it ... condescending to discuss ways and means with the heretics and schismatics, strive (assuming their cooperation) to bring into being a revivified Christendom...
...amid the cynical, the corrupt and the strident, strive to make better...
...Taylor's] complexion has been described by an ecstatic publicity man as 'a bowl of cream with a rose floating in it.' " Please compare . . . Elegy on Cynthia of Sextus Propertius: "Lilies would not surpass my mistress for whiteness; 'tis as though maeotic snows were to strive with Spanish vermillion, or rose leaves floated amid stainless milk (utque rosae puro lacte natant folia)." Please remember Propertius lived circa 24 B.C., and besides, Cynthia, we are told, had yellow hair and black eyes. Could she have been the ecstatic publicity man's prototype...
...reach the $300 billion level, said Wilson, the labor unions, which had already achieved "monopolistic" power to "dominate and control the economy," would have to exercise statesmanship. "If the unions strive only to outdo one another in their demands, and Government-by-edict enforces an endless series of wage increases without regard to industry's costs, it will lead, inevitably, to nationalization of industry...