Word: effort
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With the biggest effort of the season coming up today in the form of the Ivy League Heptagonals, the Crimson harriers left Cambridge yesterday afternoon for New York and ultimately Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx where the nine-college race will start at 11 o'clock...
When Lilienthal became chairman of the Tennessee Valley Administration in 1941, McKellar began a struggle against the young administrator in an effort to drag the T.V.A. into the realm of Washington and Tennessee political patronage. Last week, as President Truman named Lilienthal to head the civilian board inheriting the atom problem from the Army, McKellar again squeezed a question of international magnitude into a battered Capital top-hat and planned to fight Senate confirmation of the White House appointment...
Offers of a substantial reward were added last night to the sleuthings of the New England Head of the Burns International Detective Agency, M. T. Christy, in a heightened effort to locate Thomas H. West, Jr. '50, who still remains an object of an interstate search that has lasted twelve days...
...interest in preparing for these exams the veteran who is not an honors' candidates. If tutorial on the traditional plan is currently beyond the ken of the administration, the Houses may well step into the gap, offering members of their staffs as part-time tutors in a wide refresher effort...
...piece, female Senator Faye Sumner Knott, (sic) has predatory eyes slanted toward Adam, but partisan politics interfere. The first Adam is not to be Republican. In desperation, the U.S. turns to A.I. (artificial insemination), lest the Russians exploit two normal Mongolians newly discovered in Tashkent and outstrip the American effort...