Word: effort
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With the official announcement of final victory in Europe expected hourly, President James B. Conant said yesterday that the time for celebration and relaxation of effort had not yet come. "We have put over only two strikes," said President Conant, "and we must look ahead to the difficulties of the war against Japan...
...same will probably hold true for those faculty men now on leave of absence to help in the war effort. Only a very few will have finished their tasks with the end of the European war; the others will be returning gradually in the next few years...
From his mother, the 20-year-old third wife of his 53-year-old father, Hitler inherited his psychotic blue-green eyes, and probably his tendency to tantrums and his anemic artistic talent. From his father, who had risen by a lifetime's effort from a peasant to a petty customs inspector, Hitler probably inherited a toughness of character that was not so much strength as a persistent stubbornness in overcoming weakness...
With the advent this week of the Seventh War Loan Drive, undergraduates here and conducting their own intensive war service campaign in an effort to augment the College contribution in blood donations, war bond sales, and collections of old clothing...
...well placed single by Bill O'Neill in the last of the fourteenth driving in Bill Ayres from second base was enough to break up a scoreless tie with the Boston Coast Guard last Saturday at Soldiers Field. Jack Wallace's superlative four-hit pitching effort throttled the sailors for the entire afternoon and gave Coach Floyd Stahl his first victory of 1945 in the season's home opener...