Word: strove
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Edward Everett Hale in his Phi Beta Kappa oration at Brown Tuesday, on "What's the American People," strove to make every scholar realize more fully the difference between the sovereign of America-the people-and the aristocratic and oligarchic sovereigns of the older nations. He said that the old simile by which nations have been described-the pyramid-was not applicable to the United States, that this nation was not one of vast lower classes and small numbers of well to do rulers and leaders, but that the truer simile for our social order was a vase "not large...
...being adapted to please the masses; he aimed to delight the many, while not displeasing the few. The result is that his works have a certain popular character. One secret of his success is found in the fact that he used largely English words. Bach, on the contrary, strove only to produce the highest and best works his genius could evolve. His fame conse quently was almost wholly posthumous; he is one of the most notable instances of neglected genius...
...Andrews, translating Virgil - " 'Three times I strove to cast my arms about her neck, and - 'that's as far as I got, Prof." "Well, Mr. Andrews, I think that was quite far enough...
...neared the spot; she strove to smother
...Annex nymphs were soon busy among themselves, bartering for gains. Those who were beautiful looked for knowledge, as usual, while the ugly ones strove for features. What I particularly noticed was, that those in a state of mediocrity also strove for knowledge, for every woman in that state thinks she is beautiful...