Word: strove
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gradually the tide of shops and offices from downtown began to climb the hill. Mr. Morgan, however, liked his home and saw no reason why he should abandon it to the builders of business blocks. Backed by the Murray Hill Association consisting of other residents of the district, he strove to have business building on that part of Madison Ave. restricted. In this he was mainly successful, and a "residential zone" was created bounded by Madison Ave., 35th St., Lexington Ave. and 38th...
...singles match he "toyed" with Harold Throckmorton, 6-1, 6-2. When things grew dull, or when Throckmorton strove a little too valiantly, Tilden let loose a few fast ones that made Jove and his thunder look like a slow-ball pitcher...
Lenin's intellectuality was put at the service of a bloodless ideal, that of a mechanical civilization in which economic forces were everything and human forces nothing. He strove to realize it by methods that were as horrible as any that Nero in ancient Rome or the worst inquisitor of the middle ages used. There has not been in history a man who so well exemplified the hellishness of a great intellect utterly barren of the noble influences that come from the heart...
Meanwhile Cabinet meetings in Washington strove to find a course that would avoid all shoals and reefs for the ship of state. Rebel gunboats had blockaded Tampico, 300 miles from Vera Cruz, and threatened to hold up American shipping going to and from the oil fields. After the Cabinet meetings, Secretary Hughes consulted with representatives of the Petroleum Producers in Mexico...
Rivalry in programs was intense last night as each head proctor strove to outdo the other. Songs by Coach Bill Haines will be the feature in Smith Halls; R. H. Hopkins 2L, head proctor at Standish has engaged a troupe of last year's Pi Eta minstrels to produce a little playlet called. "When Nero Played His Fiddle"; while B. S. Cogan '23, head proctor of Gore, present the Moynahan Brothers as his attraction...