Word: effort
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...harm done by the effort to discover even a single clandestine Party member would outweight any possible benefit...
Were such distractions our constant lot, however, sportswriting would soon lost its calling. The positive benefits of the trade center around the fact that the writer can enjoy all the excitement of athletics, avoiding at the same time all of the unpleasantness (i.e. the physical effort). This is a very tempting set-up, especially on cold November afternoons, when, clip-board in hand, the writer ascends to the relative warmth and comfort of the Soldier's Field press-box, whence he can gaze down in fine scorn on players and spectators alike...
Nothing of this character will happen under Mr. Conant. There will be no harassment of professors for engaging in open and legal meetings. There will be no apparatus of inquiry and "closer watch." The harm done by the effort necessary to discover even a single clan-destine Party Member would outweigh any possible benefit. To go beyond that by searching for "reasonable grounds" concerning "loyalty," would still more disrupt Harvard or any free university...
...Clark and the Corporation have now told Mr. Ober and others who would use Mr. Conant's stand on Communism as an excuse for heresy-hunting that at Harvard "there will be no apparatus of inquiry and 'closer watch.' The harm done by the effort to discover even a single clandestine Party Member would outweigh any possible benefit...
...investors in Tucker had only themselves to blame; the Securities & Exchange Commission had said practically the same thing when it blew the whistle on Tucker's initial effort to sell stock...