Word: strivings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were the opposing forces which shaped the life of Thomas Carlyle. The land tore the veils from his vision, made him a poet and a seer--the other involved him in a nebulous World-Idea and a style of tortured courage. Never did one man, and a lone Scotchman, strive to embody in himself ideals so contradictory--guessing like a child about Mirabeau, about Lafayette, and guessing rightly, but struggling with words and phrases which stretched like impossible pagodas into a German sky. Stormy, ill-tempered, tenacious to truth and error alike, once he had spoken but yet so glorious...
...last month amid Europe's hubbub about War debts. The signatories were trying to adjourn Geneva's abortive Disarmament Conference with some show of accomplishment. Among other vague pledges (TIME, Dec. 19) Britain, France, Italy pledged that the Conference, when and if it reconvenes this year, shall strive to obtain for Germany and other powers "equality of rights in a system which would provide security for all nations...
Last week the Pope rejoiced in the number of canonizations and beatifications that would doubtless take place during the Holy Year, and he urged all Catholics to strive for sanctity. Said he: "It is true that only some reach the heights, but all in various modes and in different measure are obliged to have some degree of saintliness in accordance with their individual circumstances...
...good many will perhaps be inclined to attribute the general improvement in scholarship chiefly to the depression, which has caused students in take their work more seriously and is strive harder to make grades which would entitle them to consideration for scholarships. This factor no doubt has played some part and may be a partial explanation for a general improvement in all of the classes. It should not be forgotten, however, that for some time there has been a gradual increase in the proportion of students who are candidates for honors and in those who graduate with honors...
...Britain, France and Italy declared that henceforth the Disarmament Conference shall strive to obtain for "Germany and other powers . . . equality of rights in a [treaty] system which would provide security for all nations." On this basis Baron von Neurath promised that Germany will re-enter the Conference when it meets next year...