Word: effort
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Honan Province, near Chengchow, a tiny rivulet of muddy water oozed into a dried-up channel and meandered sluggishly toward Pohai Gulf, some 400 miles to the northeast. The rivulet, a man-made branch of the Yellow River, was the first fruit of the giant flood-control effort to thrust "China's Sorrow" back into its pre-1938 bed. In Shanghai, UNRRA Engineer Oliver J. Todd, director of the project (TIME, June 17), contemplated news of the trickle with mixed emotions. "Todd Almighty" knew that this was no dream come true; in fact, a nightmare was just beginning...
...difficult to single out any member of the K of C group (or of the entire squad, for that matter) for special attention. They are all supplying Jaakko with the maximum amount of effort. Yet, if there is a white-haired boy, hurdler Wes Flint fits the label as well as anybody else...
...running order will be announced at meet time. The one-mile combine is undefeated so far this season, their best effort coming against Northeastern on the Briggs balcony oval. In whipping the Huskies, Wharton, Ruby, Wheeler, and Flint were clocked in 3:30.1 with Flint misjudging the finish line and jogging the last ten yards. Cliff Wharton, not yet in top condition, will fill in for any of the eight relay men Saturday night if needed...
Jimmy Byrnes admitted that there were times when "our repeated efforts to achieve cooperation in a peaceful world seemed to be meeting only with constant rebuff. But we persisted in our efforts with patience and with firmness. Today I am happy to say that I am more confident than at any time since V-J day that we can achieve a just peace by cooperative effort if we only persist 'with firmness in the right as God gives us the power to see the right.' "* He also had a large radio audience (estimated...
...enemy. We may not be the creators they were-time alone will decide that. But we did achieve one thing: we have changed . . . that mass of more or less enlightened public for whom those four masters were undecipherable phenomena. It is a fact that now people make an effort to see without their former conventional blinkers. It is a fact too that [although] many academic 'realistic' painters dare to appear in their naked photographic vulgarity, they now make a timid try at what are for them daring color schemes. We may claim to have done the mopping...