Word: endeavoring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Australians got the first substantial electric power from their giant Snowy River hydroelectric project, an endeavor so vast that its $1 billion price tag is equal to 20% of the entire national product of ten years ago. Another signal of change: an upsurge in immigration has brought 1,500,000 hard-working "New Australians," mostly from Europe, to back the "Old Australians" in a forced-draft development of their U.S.-sized continent...
...report failed to specify the details of such a program, and did not outline how it could be effected. Instead, it simply said that "each Department shall endeavor to provide a program of courses particularly suited to the needs and interests of the non-Honors concentrator, in terms of both subject matter and mode of instruction...
...Quality in student theatre." Hartman claimed, "goes hand-in-hand with sincerity." When a production staff finds personal expression, a production "even though rough-cut technically" has the "quality of honesty and meaningful endeavor...
...sharp contrast to the last stadium contest, the field should be dry and the weather clear. A crowd of 35,000, the largest of the year, is expected to watch the varsity endeavor to maintain its threat for first place honors. To do so, Harvard must stop or outscore the Tigers, and the first alternative is most unlikely...
...education generally is an insult. Finally, of course, the provisions of the disclaimer section of the Act will not be any way effective in discovering who is disloyal to our country. For these reasons Antoich ... has elected not to participate at present.... For the time being we will endeavor to meet our student's loan needs through our own loan funds; but should this need increase sharply, we will not be able to meet it. We sincerely hope, therefore, that the protests of such organizations as the AAC and the AAUP and the complaints of most of the presidents...