Word: effort
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Anti-influenza injections will be offered to all undergraduates this week in an effort to check the spread of a few reported cases in the New England area, Dr. Arlie V. Bock, Henry K. Oliver Professor of Hygiene announced yesterday...
...national agoraphobia after World War I and Franklin Roosevelt's effort to buy a way out of World War II with Lend-Lease were only zigzags in the broad U.S. policy. F.D.R. understood that when, before Pearl Harbor, he told Congress: "Our most useful and immediate role is to act as an arsenal...
...speech (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) called for new alignments and new directions in every country in the world. Many a paragraph in it clawed crabwise before the winds of political expediency. It left a lot of questions unanswered (example: Why was it right for the U.S. to fight Communists' efforts to enter the Greek Government when it had lately been urging Chiang Kai-shek to take Communists into the Chinese Government?). Nevertheless, the total purport of the message was clear to the world: the U.S., realizing (however dimly and belatedly) that it was engaged in a deadly struggle with Communism...
Penman's Progress. Some of the things Japanese unions do would make Tom Girdler scream for John L. Lewis. Japanese labor techniques grew out of the Japanese worker's effort to reconcile the paternalistic structure of Japan's industry with relatively alien class-struggle ideas. The labor-relations adventures of the Pilot Fountain Pen Co. is a microcosm of this effort...
...most memorable thing about the show is that Stunter Paul Mantz, in an effort to publicize it, flew from coast to coast in 6 hr. 7 min. 5 sec., breaking a transcontinental record...