Word: strove
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sounding off with this truly transcendental overstatement, President Gerardo Machado of Cuba strove, last week, with titanic hospitality to welcome the delegates of 21 American nations who were in process of convening at his Capital...
...fact, deplorably otherwise. It is literally impossible for me to stud, in the Reading Room, and a few nights ago I had an opportunity of observing at least one gentleman who is evidently in the same unfortunate position: during the three quarters of an hour in which I strove to read, he slept soundly and somewhat heavily in his chair, and was still asleep when I finally gave up and left in disgust...
Even in the eighties, unusual distractions were beginning to appear; and this solicitous parent was distressed by the lack of intellectual interests shown by the young friends his boys were bringing to the house. "The only thing they talk about is athletics!" He strove to counteract this influence in his own family by the reading of good literature every evening after dinner--not without success; and he later prepared several volumes of graded selections of the best literature, to provide other parents' children with material for the cultivation of a taste for good reading; for, "good reading," he said...
...Manhattan colleges strove lustily on different gridirons, getting nowhere, yielding nothing. Columbia 0, Cornell 0; New York University 0, Colgate 0. Williams-Union; Swarthmore-Franklin & Marshall; Bowdoin-Bates also in dulged in scoreless Saturdays; but the Kirksville Osteopaths beat Jackson University...
Kiss Me. Although Desiree Ellinger (formerly of Rose Marie) and the rest of the cast strove valiantly, they proved unavailing against a 5 & lOc musical comedy production that seems to have been assembled by an auctioneer, tied together with a shoestring and marked down for quick sale...