Word: strives
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Such a steamy geyser blew off last week when Mrs. Elizabeth E. Malament, a Brooklyn social-studies teacher, inveighed against a recent U.S. history exam set by the State Board of Regents. Wrote Mrs. Malament: "Does [the exam] measure the significant and enduring values that we strive to develop in our pupils? Will it help teachers by directing their emphasis into the most meaningful channels?" Mrs. Malament thought...
...Fradier concludes that "one would be very wrong" to suspect U.S. religion of hypocrisy. "Very sincerely, with a humility that is a little sanctimonious but authentic, its adepts strive for goodness and the life everlasting...
...strive that ever...
...Constantly strive to excel all other similar units in one or more respects...
...recovery, Dr. Boisen concluded that sickness like his was "the price we pay for being men." Ministers, he decided, would have to help "set free the force in men to strive for their true objectives...