Word: strove
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...yearbook. It should eliminate the $10 fee, which together with the $50 fee helps to discourage about 200 students each year from getting their photo taken to appear in the yearbook. Lost revenue could be made up through increased sales and a better contract with the studio. If HYP strove to earn money in other ways, everyone could afford to be included in the yearbook...
...while some kids might have pretended to be Roy recording the crucial save in the Stanley Cup Finals while playing pickup on a pond or dreamed with little further thought of such fantasies, Danis strove towards that lofty goal in every respect, never outgrowing the childhood aspiration and never losing sight of his target...
...spent a term pushing Harvard undergraduates to read and reflect beyond their routine studies. As a teaching fellow in General Education 105: “The Literature of Social Reflection,” taught by Agee Professor of Social Ethics Robert Coles ’50, Winger strove to relate her stardom to students’ contemplation of moral and social issues. It is an experience that she says she’d gladly take on again if the much-loved course returns to the registrar’s listings...
...days of often-complicated questioning before the jury, both teams of attorneys strove to get witnesses to back up their competing versions of the fateful weekend...
Epps prided himself on independent thought and placed his principles above questions of loyalty or politics, no matter how harshly he was criticized. He always strove to set things right, in regard to both race and gender; he never allowed personal interests or affiliations to affect his opinions or his work. In 1980, at the request of then-University President Derek C. Bok, Epps took responsibility for race relations on campus, and was careful to take as neutral an approach to race as he could. He also headed the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations, which supports student groups...