Word: effort
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...committee has been organized as the result of the effort to continue and adant the methods used by the Civil Affairs Training School that was terminated here last fall...
...During the '30s, when the Chinese Communists were the only group who persistently called for resistance to the Japanese invasion of northern China, or when Litvinoff was the only representative of a major power to speak for Ethiopia against Italy, or when the U.S.S.R. alone made an effort to defeat Franco in Spain? Or during the '40s, while the battles of Sevastopol and Stalingrad were being fought, while the U.S.S.R. was managing to save more of the Jewish civilians left in Europe than any other major power, or perhaps while the charter of the United Nations Organization...
...statement that expectant mothers who catch German measles in the first few weeks of pregnancy often give birth to defective children. What rattled their pince-nez were his recommendations that: 1) if the disease occurs in the first three months of pregnancy, abortion should be considered; 2) every effort should be made to expose young girls to rubella, to set up probable immunity...
Export-eager Great Britain was out first with plans for another World's Fair. In London last week, the British Government announced that "no money or effort" would be spared to guarantee that it "will surpass any previous international event of the same character." Probable date: 1951, centenary of London's great exhibition for which Prince Albert had the famed Crystal Palace built in Hyde Park...
...task yet lies before the United Nations that time and tireless effort cannot accomplish. Time, however, is grudgingly granted by a people curiously expectant of modern miracles. The impatient perfectionist, continually frustrated by examples of power politics, cannot long avoid cynicism. He counts for naught the progress made when the family of nations agreed to bring their haggling within the confines of the council chamber. Exhorting the deadliness of the atomic bomb, he summons fear to promote his crusade for "real" world government...