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Definition
to attempt; or a project or activity attempted
- I am endeavoring to suggest that we keep the discussion on a friendly plane.1.7 Part 1 Chapter 7 — The Exploiters and the Exploited (34% in)
- The whole sphere of human endeavors, with one exception, left him blankly indifferent; he had no touch of that which people called culture.1.4 Part 1 Chapter 4 — The Immovable Movers (58% in)
- ...had to find another company to deal with, the supply of copper was becoming increasingly uncertain...... Philip did not smile, when he looked up in the midst of a speech he was making to some friend of their mother's, about some organization he had joined, but there was something that suggested a smile of superiority in the loose muscles of his face when he said, "No, you wouldn't care for this, it's not business, Henry, not business at all, it's a strictly non-commercial endeavor."1.6 Part 1 Chapter 6 — The Non-Commercial (8% in)
- We cannot expect their support for any endeavor of the intellect, for any goal of the spirit.1.7 Part 1 Chapter 7 — The Exploiters and the Exploited (52% in)
- At seventy, he was an obese old man with retouched hair and a manner of scornful cynicism retouched by quotations from the yogis about the futility of all human endeavor.2.7 Part 2 Chapter 7 — The Moratorium on Brains (48% in)
- Bill Brent could have— beaten him in any contest of technology, but here was an endeavor at which he could beat Bill Brent without effort.2.7 Part 2 Chapter 7 — The Moratorium on Brains (75% in)
- But the man who produces an idea in any field of rational endeavor-the man who discovers new knowledge-is the permanent benefactor of humanity.3.7 Part 3 Chapter 7 — "This is John Galt Speaking" (93% in)
There are no more uses of "endeavor" in Atlas Shrugged.
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