Word: effort
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Institute in last week's issue, the Council represents a long-established program for keeping Clevelanders informed on world affairs. As such, it is an extraordinary civic achievement. Its activity in helping the citizens of Cleveland make sense of world news parallels so closely TIME'S own effort to bring world news to its readers that TIME gladly accepted an invitation to participate in this year's forum...
There may be professors of journalism who have never heard of Milton Caniff's Terry and the Pirates, but every U.S. newspaper publisher has. Many a publisher spends more effort shaping up his comic page than he does in seeing that Palestine or North China is properly covered. Highbrows had once dismissed the comics as the poor man's literature; now to read at least one of them (usually Terry) was proof of being a regular fellow. (After all, hadn't Dickens begun Pickwick Papers as a text for a cartoon series?) Only the New York Times...
Meanwhile, a survey of other Ivy League colleges by the CRIMSON has shown Harvard to be the only one making an aggressive effort to push its present student's along where possible to make room for veterans who would not otherwise be admitted...
Coach Kopp's men will be anxious to prevent a repeat of the first performance when both teams hog-tied their opponents defensively. A fast break may perhaps be unveiled tonight by the Crimson in an effort to upset the shore patrollmen's tight formations...
Undefeated, the Freshman basketball team takes to the floor tonight in an effort to preserve their perfect slate against a powerful Brown aggregation. It is the same Bruin outfit that set back the Crimson Jayvees last month...