Word: effort
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Seattle, a maritime convention of the International Labor Office was meeting in an effort to set a minimum worldwide seamen's wage. But the minimum would not be anything like U.S. wages.* Chile shipowners pay their crews only $18 a month. Canadians pay $90. The rest of the world ranges in between. Scandinavian countries pay $80. Britain, which would give the U.S. the hottest competition, pays...
Terror. One frantic man tied sheets together, dangled his wife outside a window. His strength began to fail. For a while he called hoarsely for help. Then with a desperate effort he pulled her back. A woman seized her four-year-old daughter and jumped. Her husband leaped with her. They fell together-very slowly it seemed-and thudded on the roof of a court below...
Initial function in the regular "opening days" series of receptions following the table-hopping marathon of registration and the brain-curdling exemption and placement examinations, will be in the form of oral crystal-gazing by members of the University's Administration and Faculty, in an effort to give new students some idea of what their future at Harvard will be like. Provost Buck and Bender head a list of speakers that will include C. Crane Brinton, professor of History, and Chairman of the Society of Fellows, and Richard M. Gummere, Chairman of the Committee on Admission...
...degree was presented in honor of Dr. Beranek's "contribution to the war effort as Director of Research and Sound Control at Harvard and in recognition of his achievements in theoretical and applied acoustical science...
...unusually foolish musical. Its three chief actors: popular Trumpeter Harry James, who makes hardly any pretense at acting but blurts his trumpet often enough and loud enough to please even his most insatiable fans ; popular Crooner Dick Haymes, who tears off a pretty love song with such little apparent effort that there's no good reason why he should be required to act at all; red-haired Maureen O'Hara, who photographs so beautifully in Technicolor that no one could possibly care a hang whether she acts...