Word: effort
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After four years active research in optics contributing to the war effort, the Amateur Telescope Makers Society of Boston is returning to the University's Observatory for its regular bi-weekly meetings. The Society, numbering more than 100 members, is resuming work on a 20-inch telescopic mirror begun...
Ever since John P. Marquand discovered that there was a gold mine on Beacon Hill, books on Boston and Harvard have been hitting the stands with monotonous regularity. Last year's pseudo-Marquand, "Boston Adventure," was a very poor piece of goods, as most imitations are. But the latest effort, Helen Howe's "We Happy Few," is several cuts above its predecessors. Showing a speaking acquaintance with the Beacon Street-Brattle Street axis, Miss Howe's special target is the Cambridge cocktail crowd, the effete, hyper-esthetical group which knows all there is to know about Sex, Marxism...
Strong Terms. Deliberately, in an effort to frighten Congress, the President stated his case in strong terms. He predicted that under the Taft amendment the prices of automobiles would immediately rise $250; those of washing machines...
...under the direction of Howard H. Aiken, associate professor of Applied Mathematics, and one of the inventors who worked on it originally. Aiken, and other members of the calculator staff, served with the Navy during the war, when the work of the machine was entirely devoted to the war effort. Wider civilian use is expected in the future in several branches of physics and astronomy. With the facilities of the new building, the instruction of graduate students in the theory and use of the machine will be increased...
What Lowell House investigators might have found to criticize had they been more single-minded in their effort to help the food saving plan would be the devious execution of the program by University officials closely connected with the dining halls. Showing no conception of the spirit of the campaign, they have included more costly, and sometimes superfluous fruit to substitute for salad at dessertless meals, and have absurdly insisted on offering margarine and jam when there is no bread. In contrast, higher administrative officials for the most part have cooperated to the fullest and have turned over...