Word: striving
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Yale was due perhaps not so much to the fact that the traditional rival was beaten but that the Harvard team had fulfilled earlier predictions of latent strength and coordination. The defeat of a major rival in these days is only part of a composite goal that Harvard teams strive for and usually gain. To produce an unbeaten team is no longer the all in all of Harvard athletic policy nor the sole aim of Harvard supporters. For it is most certainly true that the idea of sports for the sake of sports is ever gaining a larger following among...
Thus did the men whose names are known strive mightily to alter a national psychology. Theirs in great part was the credit last week when on Thursday Oct. 31 U. S. Steel which the Tuesday before had closed at 174, closed at 193½, and Radio which had plunged to 38½ climbed...
...Rumania (TIME, Oct. 21), a vacancy which she had dearly coveted. As Her Majesty's special train chuffed off toward Balcic all Rumania gasped at an interview blazoned above her name by the Royalist newspaper Universal: "The royal family does not even know what it means to strive for honors and privileges. We do not need such distinctions. We are where we are to do our duty. That is all." Followed a charge that Peasant Prime Minister Juliu Maniu had offered to wangle the election of Her Majesty to one of the Regency posts on condition that she obtained...
...ministers looked bewilderedly at one another, President Chiang answered his own question with a torrent of shrill words. "We are not united! We do not work hard to make our country strong. . . . Not only Russia but all foreign countries do not give us due respect. . . . If we do not strive hard to make a great struggle we shall be finished. We must confess that even in Nanking, our capital, we can ask ourselves: how many military and civil officials of our General Staff can be favorably compared in spirit and energy with the foreigners? How many of us know even...
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