Word: effort
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thanks to a course staffed in part by Yale instructors and given by the New Haven Father's Council, Yalies can learn the ropes of fatherhood with all the expenditure of effort of an armchair strategist, according to a daily New Haven handbill...
...Hallowell '32, University mile record-holder (4:12 indoors), will speak along with captain-elect Frank Gurley. Gurley missed the cross country season, but has been working out in the cage and now appears ready to better his last year's 4:25 effort in the mile...
...housing shortage and its accompanying injustices were revived in a most irritating fashion at Harvard this September. A slow turnover of low-cost apartments, brimming Federal projects and the greatest enrollment in college history all combined to produce a large group of homeless and dissatisfied married veterans. In an effort to cope with this situation the Harvard Housing Trust instituted a strict priority system that temporarily placed veterans cut at Fort Devens or at the Hotel Branswick and gradually drew them into preferred quarters near the College. Ostensibly an inflexible program of unbiased seniority, this system was speedily replaced...
...last favorable tide began to ebb, the union leaders made one desperate final effort to win the men back from Murphy's sway. "Listen," one of them shouted, "if you'll take the ship out on the tide, you can turn this meeting into an executive session and elect your representatives now." But Murphy shouted him down. There'd be no election, he cried, until tomorrow, "and we'll let the ship lie there tonight." The pimply-faced steward looked at the tall ship and cried gleefully: "Well, chum...
With all its crusading and its stout effort to present a serious social problem to a mass audience, the film as a whole is better than the solution it offers. Like the novel, the movie contends that decent, intelligent people, who know better than to be anti-Semitic but take no militant steps to stamp out the social weed, are chiefly to blame for its hardy growth...