Word: effort
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...effort to increase interest in ROTC, a bill is now pending before Congress which will, in its present form, provide men in the elementary course with $20 per month subsistance and all equipment. This bill will also give men in advanced courses a $20 subsistance allowance plus $1.25 per diem for uniforms. The plan is almost certain of passage, according to McClure, since it is supported by President Truman and the Military Affairs Committee in both Houses of Congress...
Most of the Association directors agreed that it was worth everyone's effort to keep all costs down and that they would urge all of their members to refrain from profiteering. Even though they could not speak for non-member merchants in the Square, they felt that the use of the word "price-gougers" in Friday's paper carried unjustified implications...
...they could be worried only by the possibilities of a major conflict with America. When brought right down to it, they were frustrated because the Poles, many of them, did not seem to appreciate the self-sacrifice and generosity which the Russians displayed in spending so much time and effort showing the Poles how to run their government, their army, their secret police in the interests of "true democracy." Somehow the Americans and British, with all their irresponsible talk of freedom and liberty, seemed to them partly responsible for the conflict and civil disturbances which were shaking Poland...
...life and growth. Directly under the spot where the bomb had burst eleven months ago, a small vegetable garden flourished. The people were clearing paths through the desert of debris (it would take years to remove all) and building temporary camps of wood and rusty tin. In an effort to hide the naked desolation, the city administration issued free seedlings of wildflowers. The Reconstruction Deliberation Committee, with Rotarian zeal, dreamed of making a tourist center of Hiroshima with parks, broad avenues and a memorial hall to world amity. Chief booster was the city's assistant mayor, who played third...
...Angeles concert this week, Cellist Stephen De'ak pulled his bow lightly across a queer contraption shaped somewhat like a pneumatic drill. With no effort he produced tones large enough to fill the hall...