Word: effort
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Britain," said one committeeman, "is disintegrating in the greatest order ever displayed, and France is recovering in the greatest chaos imaginable." The key to Britain's recovery was production of coal, and in that effort Britain had fallen flat. Miners, in fear of mechanization, clung to old methods, persisted in working the short week because more than half their extra day's pay would have to go to the Government in taxes...
...Allegro, with all its faults, is an impressive effort in a good cause: it is the latest sortie in that well-nigh-won revolution against cloak-and-daguerreotype operetta and June-moon musicomedy. In that revolution, Oscar Hammerstein is certainly one of the heroes. He put something like real people into Oklahoma! and Carousel; but Allegro is by far the most realistic of his librettos, by far the most deliberate manifestation of the New Look he gave to musical plays...
...estimated crowd of 35,000, turning out on what is slated to be the hottest October 17 in recent Cambridge history, should see the Crimson open up with every trick in the books in an effort to offset the Crusaders' 21 pound per man weight advantage...
...leaders in organized labor's fight to halt final enactment of the bill, Pressman last June submitted an outlined interpretation of the Taft-Hartley law to Congress, in an effort to rally support for an impending Presidential veto...
Campbell added that a Russian-Czech effort to establish a Slavonic Studies seminar, patterned on the American model, would be encouraged in every...