Word: effort
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...qualifications of the great number of men who do the real work. Each new department head, in from sea, perhaps carries on that quality of arrogance you mentioned by assuming omniscience in the new work he is undertaking: the direction of a staff of instructors in an educational effort. Although he is no longer on a ship, he generally behaves as though he were, ordering changes in methods as though he were fully conversant with the running of an academic organization. In two years, he leaves to give place to another head. As for his staff of teachers, he gets...
Labor Secretary Lew Schwellenbach, who had made a frantic, futile effort to bring Lewis and the coal operators together, got the news from the White House ticker, was charmed into commenting: "Greatly gratified. . . . I hope that other striking elements in industry will follow the footsteps. . . ." President Truman got the news from Lew Schwellenbach, said that he was "very happy...
...meat to continue supplying the city. Unless the U.S. and Britain delivered their share soon, he would henceforth supply only the Soviet sector. Heatedly his colleagues pointed out that they could contribute their shares only if the Russians speeded up the railroads under their control. Said the Russian: every effort was being made, and anyway, railroads were not his business, while food was. Said the Frenchman: France would start meat deliveries soon, but not to Berlin. The Russian sniffed. The American recalled that U.S. authorities had already delivered 9,000 tons of dressed beef to the Russians at the Bavarian...
...reviving it now. The Victor Herbert music is nice but hardly notable. The book, jokes and horseplay are not only antiquated for 1945 but were probably no better than average for 1906. Yet this production has the disarming trait of not trying to bridge the years. It makes no effort to scrape any of the red mildew off The Red Mill. Hence the show is an amiable relic. It is frankly a horsecar- not a horsecar pretending...
...Recent manifestation: an effort to rename leprosy Hansen's disease, after the Norwegian who isolated the bacillus some 70 years...