Word: effort
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Church, the effort of man is motivated by the redemption of the original sin which was permitted by God. Whereas for us it is made necessary by the survival in man of the ancestral memories against which he alone can fight. As the 'original sin' was nothing but the animal obedience to appetites, and the disregard of human dignity, the similarity is striking...
...collapse, lives Geoffrey Firmin, onetime British vice-consul in Quauhnahuac, now a mentally tortured, helpless dipsomaniac. Upon him, one bright morning-just as he is staggering out of a bar, still wearing last night's tuxedo-descends his divorced American wife Yvonne, in a last desperate effort to remake their marriage...
...Cadets throw a lot of weight amound the rink in an effort to make up for a speed and teamwork deficiency, but their beefy tactics have yet to net them a Pentagonal League victory. Included in past debacles are 9-1 and 8-1 defeats at the hands of Yale and the Crimson. They have also lost to Princeton...
...huge investment, almost as large a sum of cash has been lavished upon a publicity campaign second in magnitude only to the big. "Due in the Sun" build-up. If you happen to be an admirer of W. Somerset Maugham you may think it was worth all this effort, but if you're not, it will probably just add up to an awfully long three hours...
...effort to locate all available housing for hard-pressed married student-veterans, the Harvard chapter of the American Veterans Committee will conduct a five-day drive beginning today to register vacant living quarters in the vicinity of the University...