Word: effort
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...four members of the Varsity squad, tonight will be their last effort for a Harvard basketball team. Captain Saul Mariaschin, one of the fanciest ball-handlers and best set shots in Crimson basketball history, will be bowing out, as will forward Leo Page, and substitutes John Noble and Jack Clark. It is reasonable to assume that these gentlemen are anxious to end their college court careers with a flourish...
...Lions, who clinched the league championship last week, will be playing their final game of the season, and Coach Forrest Ridings is expected to open all the scoring valves in his effort to reverse the Varsity's upset of his charges two weeks...
...dancing gets nothing better and settles for what it gets. When something original and interesting comes along, such as "It Might As Well Be Spring," it usually outsells all the others, but the tinkling of the each rolling in remains unheard by publishers and song-writers in their mad effort to turn out "For Sentimental Reasons" a hundred times a year. The deaf sport is in Tin Pan Alley's car, not the public...
...being exploited by a law permitting school buses to pick up parochial school children, so long as the taxpayers of New Jersey have chosen to put the law on the books and have chosen to keep it there. Far more vicious, it would seem to me, is the effort of a minority of the state's taxpayers run to the federal courts and upset by court ruling what the majority of taxpayers refuse to upset by majority vote. Francis Murphy Dunster...
Outlining a two-pronged attack designed to put the campaign over the top, Campbell disclosed solicitors will concentrate on undergraduates in an all-out effort to wind up the College drive by tonight...