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Word: endeavour (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like a good fellow, the War Office laughs off the "unreliable" information about the Army possessed by most civilians: "... being a shy and rather self-conscious nation, and disliking any display of sentiment, we endeavour to conceal our real feelings towards such a calling as the soldier's by being flippant about it - cracking jokes on the subject - jokes about red tape, brass-hats, bully beef, and serjeant-majors. All of which is harmless enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Welcome to Arms | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

With the Redmen from McGill out of the way until next season, the Varsity Hockey team will endeavour to get back into the win column and boost their standing in the International Intercollegiate League when they face Princeton on the Hobey Banker Memorial Rink Saturday night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOCKEY TEAM SEES HIGH HURDLE OVER TIGERS TOMORROW | 1/14/1938 | See Source »

...equally blind to claim that the faculty has been bred on "booklearning which destroys enthusiasm," when the ranks of every school in the University are filled with men of reknown not just in Cambridge, but in the country over, for their achievements in their chosen line of endeavour...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AFTER FALSE GODS | 12/15/1937 | See Source »

From now on all forms of athletic endeavour, from lowly cross-country to highly-touted football, will become less and less dependent on the haunting specter of insufficient gate receipts; envisioning a not-too-distant future when sports-for-sports-sake wil bring true the dreams of all exponents of simon-pure athletics...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 10/30/1937 | See Source »

...Same day Endeavour II arrived at Gosport. Partner Sopwith boarded her in brief, for Captain Williams, his friend and skipper for a decade, had died on board of a gastric hemorrhage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Partners' Summer | 10/4/1937 | See Source »

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