Word: effort
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Officials in War Effort...
Time is the "sine qua non" for achieving industrial peace. Time and a sincere effort by both parties to understand the problems of the other. Vindictive, partisan legislation will only add fuel to the flames and postpone the day when the full industrial might of this nation can surge into action...
...offer on the Morris Gray Fund guest lectures. Although it would be possible for Harvard to obtain one or more men of the calibre of Auden or Tate, the University's blindness to the invaluable services which such men could render has made Harvard not a center of creative effort in America, but a whistle stop on the guest lecture circuit...
Under the supervision of the dining hall department, this new service is another effort to "do something for the boys," Roy L. Westcott, manager of dining halls, and yesterday...
...evolution of manners. He describes the "minor morals" attitude of the earliest mentors, when American manners formed an adjunct to law and social structure, and punishment was swift for makers of ugly faces. With the Revolution and rise of republicanism, however, Mr. Schlesinger professes to see in manners the effort of common people to reach equality--a levelling process. A new conception of manners as a set of specific injunctions to be memorized developed, and a steady stream of manners books was demanded by the etiquette-hungry American people...