Word: effort
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...negotiations with A.T. & T. dragged along without sign of bearing fruit. Company officials made no counter wage offers, refused every effort to place the bargaining on an industrywide basis...
Perhaps a more potent reason arises from indifference on the part of students--indifference both in tutorial participation, and towards any concerted effort to halt the trend away from the old conference system. Yet old, reliable "student apathy" should hardly be saddled with total responsibility for the scrapping of the full tutorial program. One excuse for this very indifference may be the poor quality of individual instruction that some departments have offered heretofore; another may be pure ignorance of tutorial and its benefits, as a result of lost opportunities to experience such teaching...
Asia's babbling voices joined last week in a notable and noisy effort at unison. On their main theme, reaction against Western domination, Asians (they no longer wanted to be known as Asiatics) achieved fairly close harmony...
...commission's report been worth its effort? Perhaps some of the mealymouthed editorial reaction to it could properly be laid to timidities and tenuousness in the report itself. But the way the press responded (or failed to respond) to the commission's criticism indicated more than that. The job of improving the U.S. press, the commission had said, was largely up to the press itself. The method, said the commission, was in self-examination and "vigorous mutual criticism." So far the U.S. press (or a sizable part of it) was plainly demonstrating that it didn't want...
...Happen are proof that a first-rate critic may also become a fine storyteller. Pritchett's reviews in London's liberal New Statesman and Nation are highbrow; they are also incisive and discriminating. Pritchett considers his story writing "an endless chewing of the cud of experience, an effort to digest; and also a desire to fill up the unfurnished wastes of time which surround the goggling...