Word: strivings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Robert Oppenheimer '26 told a capacity Sanders Theatre audience yesterday that the world we live in today is an "open world" where it is "not wrong for anyone to know anything" and in which everyone should strive to learn as much...
...general public has the mistaken notion that we of the geisha world are one of the main targets of the current antiprostitution law, and it is up to you. the true geishas, to dispel this conception. The true geisha's life is her art. Study hard and always strive for its perfection." Soon afterward, the school star pupil, vivacious, 19-year-old Mariko, was awarded top prize for the year for having earned some $5,300 in declared income and an estimated $14,000 more in tips from satisfied customers...
...Greeks, British efforts to formulate a self-government plan for Cyprus and break long-deadlocked negotiations between the U.K., Greece, and Turkey over the future of the strategic British colony. The U.S., said the State Department, "still hopes" that its three allies and the people of Cyprus would "strive to agree upon a way of moving together toward a solution which is so important to themselves and to the entire free world...
...Swiss like nothing has in years. Last week, casting traditional impartiality to the winds, Foreign Minister Max Petitpierre told the Swiss Parliament that in Hungary "we have witnessed and are witnessing the cold enslavement, through armed force, arrests and deportations, of a nation whose only crime is to strive for independence. There is not a Swiss worthy of the name who does not realize with horror that something is happening which is a crime against humanity...
...world and compete again for the biggest possible prize. It is enough for a young man of 24 to know that his achievements can mean something as long as Olympic games are held, as long as youngsters anywhere, from the steppes of Russia to the African veld, strive to run faster, throw farther, jump higher than anyone else in the world...