Word: effort
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Winthrop, however, last night's results were not achieved without some effort, as it was necessary to combine the House smoker and free beer with the nomination meeting in order to lure enough Puritans from their rooms to attain a quorum...
After his speech, even Vandenberg seemed anxious to set himself straight on that point. Said he to a friend: "If anybody had told me a year ago that I would be making an all-out effort in behalf of David Lilienthal, I would have thought him crazy. But it was a political lynching that was going...
...queue spirit is extending into every phase of British life. Sports, food, clothing, politics, the Government's efforts in the economic crisis are all affected by the popular insistence that if anyone is to be miserable, everyone must be equally miserable. In a country where inequality has been and still is crass and pronounced, this is perhaps a natural tendency. But it is nonetheless inhibiting to national and individual effort, and it is already justifying and concealing innumerable small invasions of personal freedom. Britons have given up most of their economic freedoms and seem intent on abandoning the remainder...
...they had not had for a long time. The sudden threat to their pay checks had something to do with it, too, and the jolt was healthy for everybody. Unhappily along with the jolts came material shortages which make it impossible for millions to work full time at full effort, even if they want...
...nightly cooking? Dr. Cowles examined bats, both active and resting, in the breeding and the non-breeding seasons. He found that, while they are at rest, their hairless wings are pallid, almost bloodless. But when they raise their temperature to the flying level, which they must do by an effort of will before they can take off, their wings fill up with blood, and become as efficient in heat dissipation as automobile radiators...