Word: effort
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Where, then, is that cry, the cry for tutorial that is apparently there for the asking? The culprit is apathy--faculty apathy that blocks any planning for tutorial or any real effort to expand it, student apathy that keeps the pressure of opinion dormant. Until indifference is met and routed, the future of the tutorial system and the education that goes with it will remain discouragingly black...
...would do well to think of its future in terms other than its men. It now had responsibility, and a record to make. In voting for Republicans, the people had assumed that they were voting for a climate of freedom and for a party which would make a new effort to solve U.S. industrial strife. They assumed that the G.O.P. would take the Government off the side of labor and institute full and free collective bargaining. Thus the election of 1946, which settled quite a number of things, raised two paramount questions. Would the Republican Party solve the labor problem...
...Dough. The Sun's left-handed little brother in Manhattan, PM, last week ran its first ads, in its own brave effort to pay its way. On its current small circulation (170,755), its first rate card offered no bargain. At a flat rate of 60? a line, it cost general display advertisers up to four times as much to reach a PM reader as it cost to talk to New Yorkers through the other eight dailies...
...pigs proved that loud and constant noise does no hamper efficiency or make for neurotic individuals. A steady stream of practical inventions for wartime communications and medical purposes poured forth form this laboratory and its partner project in Cruft, the Electro-Acoustic Laboratory. Among the contributions of the joint effort were an clactroacoustic air speed indicator, lightweight soundproofing for air-planes, aural blind flying instruments, and special earplugs which make possible better hearing of voice under conditions of sustained loud noise...
...sore spots remains; the price a veteran on an allowance has to pay has sometimes prevented him from accepting the University-sponsored projects and made him rely instead on less expensive, if less comfortable, accommodations. some students, in an effort to live somewhere within their $90 per month G.I. subsistence allowance, have felt obliged to turn down the Brunswick and Harvardevens Village for one-room or one-room-and-kitchen-privilege arrangements elsewhere...