Word: effort
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more we study the peace treaties of 1919 under the light of the events that followed," he continued, "the more we find they were the outcome of a successful effort of common sense and good will...
Published in book form, as The Christian Heritage in America (Macmillan; $2), the sermons provide an informal, quickly read handbook of U.S. sectarianism. Methodist Hedley comes close to toppling over backwards in his effort to play no favorites, to find and set forth the essential good in every splinter of Christianity. But the effort is well made and to better purpose than merely striving to please. In opposition to those who would force all Protestants into a Procrustean bed of "unity" (as the Christian Century's fiery Charles Clayton Morrison would), Author Hedley sees no innate evil in sectarianism...
...merchant in the Square ostensibly calling the Crimson to task for its stand on foreign prices down. Actually, in crying out against the high prices of the basic food commodities, he is echoing the Crimson's original warning--that retailers who did not join in a common effort to hold prices down would find their own living costs raised just as tangibly as those of the students who find themselves in no position to take advantage of higher wages or profits. That publishers, too, have raised the ante only reflects the don't-care attitude which is most popular among...
...Francisco's earnest, able Mayor Roger Dearborn Lapham made a grateful announcement: "My one objective will be to further the interest of the city I love." The effort of his political enemies to oust him through a recall vote (TIME, July 15) had failed. The city, by a score of 105,742 to 73,673, last week decided it loved its mayor...
...Somerset Maugham: "I sit down with a fountain pen and paper and the story pours out. However lousy a section is I let it go. I write on to the end. Then the subconscious mind has done what it can. . . . The rest is simply effort . . . polishing, rewriting the lousy parts . . . going over a chapter time and time again, until, though you know it isn't right, it is the best...