Word: strives
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...suppose the student were to conscientiously strive to maximize his own interest and spend every coupon in the book. If he were thrifty this would cost him no more than $300. However, no sensible person would be content with saving $7.50 on a grey flannel suit if by buying two of them he could save...
...work for which it was never designed. It would be a great disaster if the ever-normal granary were converted into an abnormal granary by loans completely out of line with the weather and the market. The farmer should face the economic facts of life and not strive for the impossible in a postwar world where worldwide supply & demand forces are loaded against him for the next ten years at least...
...blank verse and enclosed a key to a new Studebaker sedan for the Secretary and Mrs. Weeks. A young local salesman wrote that he had been selling cars for only a year and added, 'If I may have this opportunity to give you a demonstration, I will strive to live up to your expectations of a salesman and sell you.' A Plymouth-DeSoto dealer from Boston waved the old-school tie (Harvard) at Alumnus Weeks. A resourceful Hamilton, Ohio dealer pointed out that Hamilton was 500 miles from Washington but offered to drive...
...anyway. President Harold W. Dodds expressed such an attitude when he said, "We shall continue to stress the college as the element which alone gives meaning to a university. We shall uphold the banner of the general as the only safe foundation for the particular. We shall strive for quality rather than quantity; we have no illusions of grandeur that bigness will satisfy. We shall resist the pressure to be large in numbers, for we believe that we can best serve our democracy by remaining small...
...President quoted Lincoln's second inaugural address: "With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in ... to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace...