Word: effort
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wright, I would like to suggest that he himself test the "practicability" of the 18th Century cup whose fine and slightly flaring rim was skillfully designed to check the escape of any drop of liquid down its side. A thick edge-especially one curving "inward-defies every effort of human lips to hold back the gush of liquid which dribbles down the sides and even makes a ring in the saucer...
This week, after the two weeks' wrangle over procedures, the Conference got down to its business-the drafting of peace treaties with Germany's satellites. On every issue confronting the Conference, the pattern would be determined by Russia's effort to squeeze from victory in the war the last drop of political advantage in the postwar world. Whether Russia's dynamic advance would continue or be halted peaceably depended largely on how much Molotov at Paris enlarged Moscow's somewhat limited ability to win friends & influence peoples...
...College in a week-long course in religious drama, joined in instructions and demonstrations that ranged from how to walk on stage to how to produce a play. Said one bespectacled girl: "It's been 100%. Absolutely something for everyone." Sheffield's school was the biggest practical effort the R.D.S. has seen so far. Its success has already led to planning courses like it in three other cities...
...Contrary to the impression given by Col, Neville," says Aldrich, "I believe that the majority of officers in the Army made a conscientious and largely successful effort to insure a fair distribution of PX supplies, to refrain from monopolizing the USO queens, to spare their men from standing in long lines, and to get them out of trouble when it was necessary...
...real issue must be: how can we see to the fulfillment of the aims of the Council as set forth in the preamble to its constitution: "The purpose of the Council is . . . to bring before the governing bodies of the College expression of undergraduate opinion in an effort to make College policies better adapted to the needs of the student body . . . and to serve as the responsible authority in matters where undergraduate action, rather than opinion, concerns the College as a whole...