Word: effort
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...committee, whose recommendations for permanent tenure are almost tantamount to election, has been the amount of published research done by the individual instructor. In so many words, this means that an instructor must, before his alloted time runs out, spend most of his time and effort in somehow culling sufficient material for a book out of the big research libraries of the country. This effort is made necessarily at the expense of his tutoring, no matter how implicitly he might believe in the tutorial plan...
...that they become dynamically representative bodies. Some sort of written rules of procedure or, better, house constitutions, especially as regard elections, should be framed. During the war, no system for house committees was possible. Now, however, it is high time that the houses get going and make a concerted effort to put the committees on their feet...
Another consideration that entered into the setting up of the coming term's courses, according to Dean Buck, was that every effort was being made to have a complete catalogue available for the record breaking influx expected next fall...
...thousand years alchemists dreamed of transmuting mercury into gold. They never succeeded. Modern atomic physicists might do the trick without a philosopher's stone, but do not think the result would be worth the effort. Last week, however, scientists at the University of California announced that they had transmuted gold into mercury-and turned a scientific profit. They did it by bombarding gold (atomic weight 197) with neutrons from the Berkeley cyclotron. Its atoms each absorbed one neutron, eventually turning into mercury...
From This Day Forward (RKO Radio) is a tardy but sincere filming of Thomas Bell's All Brides Are Beautiful, a novel (1936) about Depression in The Bronx. Its theme: the effort of decent, poor newlyweds to live as well as they can. Its thesis: love and fortitude can handle anything that economic injustice throws their way. The story is told mainly in flashbacks as Bill Cummings (Mark Stevens) goes through his old, familiar, woeful process of looking...