Word: effort
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...latest wrinkles is the practice of slapping together dozens of new producing units to operate under the guise of independent companies, mainly as a tax reduction scheme. One of these post-war babies is an outfit going under the rather meaningless title of Nero Films, and their first effort is now on the market, to no one's particular advantage. Obviously, these gentlemen have seen a picture called "Notorious" a couple of times, and have consequently attempted a watered-down version of the Hitchcock formula...
...tribes of Shilluk and Dinka. But others, responding to the challenge of desiccation, resolved to change their lives completely. The valley of the Nile was then an all but inaccessible jungle of rank reeds, the lair of hippopotamuses and crocodiles. To live at all under such conditions required an effort beyond any that such men had ever made. Through the centuries, they drained the swamps, felled the reeds, diked the Nile, laid out fields. This response, Toynbee believes, was the genesis of Egyptian civilization-a response so powerful that its career, some 4,000 years, outlasted that of any civilization...
Western Civilization. If the topmost climber from the pit of the past could take time from his desperate effort to save himself by climbing higher, he would see below a paralyzing panorama of desolation. Must he join it too? How much longer can he keep going? What is the state of Western civilization? How firm is its grip upon the rocks which can kill more easily than they can help his ascent...
...distance race DeForest nipped a second off his own record of 2:15 flat made last year. His more modest effort in the 100 was enough to equal his own previous best, and the previous college record with 52.7. A little less than seven seconds was shaved from the 1934 record in the 200 yard breast stroke when the stop-watch showed 2:27.8 as the versatile waterman hit the wall...
While all this was going on, Yale's Tony Lavelli was making a futile effort to mark up the needed 16 points which would have tied Columbia's Walt Budko for Ivy League individual scoring honors. The Crimson employed a shifting man-to-man defense which dropped two extra players back to guard Lavelli every time he received the ball, but the Eli ace still managed to come close to the record, scoring 13 points...