Word: effort
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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WASHINGTON, January 29 -- The United States suddenly ended today a year's effort to mediate between China's warring factions and announced that most of the remaining Marines and Army forces would be pulled out shortly...
...guessed what social force (the lash or superstition) called forth so mighty an effort, or what happened to the people who built Fortress Nanmatol. Director Peter H. Buck of Honolulu's Bishop Museum (whose mother was a New Zealand Maori) hopes the U.S. will clear up Japan's neglected mystery and retell the tale of the daring, industrious primitives who sailed the Pacific sea reaches millenniums...
...months New York City had been looking for a superintendent of schools. It was a prize job, the best-paid public school administrative post in the U.S.: $25,000 a year. The Board of Education declared itself ready to "shatter precedent in its effort to find the best man, regardless of geographic location or rank in service," to replace Superintendent John E. Wade, who must retire at 70 this summer...
Alice Adams, besides, was probably Tarkington's best effort to tell "the truth and mystery of human nature." His account of Alice's emotions and behavior during a saunter down a street in spring, of her exhausting stratagems to avoid seeming snubbed at a dance, had a precision and pathos more than worthy of the writer whom Tarkington regarded as his master, William Dean Howells-almost worthy of Henry James. But why was this novel as a whole inferior to Howells, James or Edith Wharton, and why has Tarkington never been thought a strong figure among U.S. writers...
...March 7, date of the next showing, a short history of the animated cartoon will be presented, including Walt Disney's first effort, "Steamboat Willie." The second feature is "Lives of a Bengal Lancer," with Gary Cooper...