Word: effort
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unconditional surrender served one all-important purpose: it spiked every German effort to divide Russia and the Western Allies. Furthermore, it was a handy and possibly a necessary substitute for specific aims and terms, at a time when the Allies had no common aims beyond defeating the enemy...
...Chicago Daily News (never to be confused with the anglophobic Tribune), Publisher John S. Knight addressed a blunt open letter to British Publisher Lord Beaverbrook. Its subject: the U.S. people's opinion of the British war effort. Knight's verdict...
Like everyone else, Dr. Monahan thought that he had no chance to win. Said he: "I think the French Canadians (about half the 15,000 population) will lose me the election. . . ." He planned to spend $1,000 in an effort "to set the heather blazing again across old Glengarry...
This version of the love story of the Austro-Hungarian royal heir (Harry Stockwell) and his unroyal Marinka (Joan Roberts) furnishes a good deal more low comedy than high romance. It is told without style or period elegance, in a lurching effort to reconcile antics with atmosphere. As a result, the Alt Wien of 1888 and the Broadway of 1945 constantly collide, and neither wins out. The whole thing merely smacks of something in between the two-operetta the world over, circa...
...Life could not have started much be fore it did, or have got much further than it has at the present date. If this is so, human effort is worth while, and human life has a meaning...