Word: effort
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...program offers to British workers no immediate prospect but more sweat, and to British housewives only more tears of frustration over shortages. If Cripps could dangle before British workers no carrot in the form of more food and consumer goods, what incentives would they have to greater effort? Cripps last month said: "It has never yet been worked out how far a donkey will walk after a carrot permanently held beyond its reach, but there must be a limit to that form of stimulation." Cripps believes in a higher incentive "[We can succeed] only if each one of us puts...
Assignment: Tel-Aviv (Paul Falkenberg; United Palestine Appeal) is the clearest effort among the four to appeal to non-Jews. It is also the least effective. It is no more than a slightly humanized travelogue, in uneven color, narrated by the glossily chummy voice of Quentin (London Can Take It) Reynolds...
Campbell served as president of the Student Council in 1946-47, and had ben a member of that group for several terms previously. It was during Campbell's tenure as Council president that the group's current constitution was written in an effort to make the College's student government "more democratic and more efficient...
Joseph Hudnut '09, Dean of the Faculty of Design, stated that he specifically favored the idea of a Student Activities Center in the light of its special appropriateness for the purpose involved. "Fostering creative cooperative activity," he emphasized, "is in the spirit of the teamwork that characterized our military effort. I think the committee's expression of piety in the Church is actually a subconscious expression of squeamishness over-fund-raising...
More passing-offensive and defensive tactics--was the emphasized effort, with a long session of protection against Orange and Black aerial thrusts taking up a lot of the time...