Word: effort
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This year's coal strike differed from those of recent times in that the United Mine Workers never used their usual "no contract, no work" slogan. Instead, after the last contract expired on June 31, the miners inaugurated a three-day work week in an effort to strengthen their bargaining position. Their aim was to cut down existing coal stocks without the odium or financial stress of going out on strike...
...bituminous miners in the North and South are still out of the pits. It is the first instance of steel and coal walkouts, separately caused, running concurrently. Mediator Ching, balked in his efforts to end the steel dispute, has turned to the coal situation in an effort to get a settlement somewhere...
...hoped that Harvard Hall will not be the final effort. People are still going blind in the New Lecture Hall. Students are still being won over to pessimistic philosophics in the gloom of Emerson. And sweating examinees still have to brace their bluebooks against the interminable wobble of the tables in Memorial Hall...
...CRIMSON's "Confidential Guide" each year is directed against the professor or instructor who knows but cannot teach. "Competent but dull," "Knows his stuff but can't put it across," are frequent descriptions. This year for the third time, the Radcliffe Graduate School is making a partial effort to meet this ineptitude...
...series is valuable as a pioneer effort and as a precedent for other schools, but attendance at these lectures will hardly equip graduate students for the complicated job of teaching. The course needs to be more thorough in its approach, and should provide for more active participation on the part of students--with collateral reading, practice teaching, and written work...