Word: effort
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...housed chickens, to scrape and tan animal furs for family use, to wash and spin wool, with homemade soap and homemade spinning wheel, to finish the winter evenings by the light of a potato-lamp (with its improvised wick set in melted fat in a hollowed-out potato!). The effort is sure to leave him with the greatest indifference toward the "literature of despair...
...Philadelphia plant had made-no effort to get some 1,000 nonunion, nonstriking employes through the picket lines. The union had permitted daily passage of maintenance workers. The company had asked and obtained an injunction against mass picketing. Lawful picketing went on as it had before...
...Germans paid far more attention to the food crisis than to politics. True, some began to display a mixture of old arrogance and new bitterness which might one day become the mental pattern for many of their fellow Germans. But most of them were too wearied by the extraordinary efforts of living to spend any effort on political thought and action. Germans used up their energies lugging in logs from the woods, standing in queues for rations, digging among the rubble for a place to live. Some even scoured garbage dumps for food. Ever practical, the German Communist press captured...
...effort to fill requests for housing of over 1,000 married students, the Counsellor for Veterans Housing Office this week revised the priority list of those applications currently active, and established certain rules concerning offerings of adequate housing made to applicants...
...Church's survival. It looks to the U.S. as an idealistic people who have at last chosen, or been forced, to take their place in international affairs. And it looks to Francis Cardinal Spellman as the practical, idealistic American who can best advise and guide its effort to utilize these forces in its favor...