Word: effort
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With the institution of a far more flexible program than that arranged during the war and the reduction of requirements from four periods per week to three, an effort has been made to emphasize the recreational aspects of the plan, he declared...
Food & Shelter. Was Russia playing possum by deliberately stressing Soviet weakness? It was conceivable, but far from likely. The war had cost Russian production a decade of progress. She could not make that up if a Big Three split forced her to continue devoting two thirds of her national effort to armaments. Whatever their long-term aims might be, Soviet leaders wanted peace long enough to put more food in Russian bellies, more clothes on Russian backs...
Before last week's big Wanamaker Mile, France's happy-go-lucky Marcel Hansenne thought: "Why should I spend so much effort when I could be leading an easy life? I must be a fool to run." It was his first race in the U.S., his first indoors, his first taste of a hardboard track. Marcel ran, but the effort he spent was not enough...
Putting out the welcome-home sign fortnight ago, the Post ran an interview in which F.P.A. glumly observed that "the only people who like to write [are] the people who write terribly." Scanning his first week's effort, some readers wondered if he was beginning to like his work. F.P.A. is unworried: if the three-month syndicate trial doesn't pan out, he still makes pool-table pin money on radio's Information Please (around $500 a week...
Simplicity v. Glory. This was not the first major effort of U.S. Protestants to meet present-day deficiencies of the King James version. The American Standard (1901), which sold by the million, profited from three centuries of Biblical scholarship and discovery of new texts which followed the King James version (1611), which was itself a revision of elder versions, not a new translation. But its English was awkward-its translators mauled the English language by following the Greek literally, like a dull schoolboy rendering Homer...