Word: effort
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Beranek, director of the Systems Research and Electro-Acoustic Laboratories, was given the honorary degree of Doctor of Science by Cornell College, Iowa, this week, in recognition of his "contribution to the war effort...
This week's election of a new Constituent Assembly is a critical test of that effort; from what happens at France's polls the whole Western world may learn how strong the Communist threat is. The result depends largely on the skill of the men who lead the French Communists...
Chinese Nationalists and Communists, their armies deployed for battle, were still killing each other last week; but negotiations between their leaders continued in a much improved atmosphere. Opposing propaganda chiefs met in Nanking in an effort to place bounds (sternly requested by U.S. Mediator George Marshall) on the things they could say about each other...
Observers predicted that Yoshida would need more shots of MacArthurian adrenalin if he was to survive in spite of his lack of tact. Sample: some time ago he invited two U.S. correspondents of Irish descent to dinner in an effort to enlist their help in mitigating occupation directives-which, said he, "as you Irishmen can understand, are too oppressive for the proud to bear...
After a valiant but fruitless effort to improve the sweatshop lot of working girls, Patterson went all out for Socialism. In 1906 he got in Dutch with his family by writing a bitter magazine piece called Confessions of a Drone. Excerpt: "I have an income of between $10,000 and $20,000 a year. I spend all of it. I produce nothing-am doing no work. I [the type] can keep on doing this all my life unless the present social system is changed...