Word: effort
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hardheaded Admiral Mitscher was quick to point out. The Pacific war, said he, must slow down now, not because of defeats, but because of victories which have moved U.S. bases forward by thousands of miles. In his best professorial manner Mitscher soundly lectured: Americans have no idea of the effort consumed in getting food, ammunition and other supplies to the islands of the Pacific-it means a lot more shipping than is available now. "We'll just have to cut a couple extra holes in our belt...
...airplane photography, has made a decided contribution to the success of Raisz's "plane's-eye" cartography. Widely used, its significance has been equalled by his fine-lens camera, and added to the work of Raisz and William K. Coburn, assistant in Geographical Exploration, it represents an important scientific effort toward victory. Coburn is noteworthy for work with short-wave radio and trial balloons...
...indoor rowing machines employ the same principle as the treadmill, with the rower putting considerable effort into his work but apparently making no headway. Actual progress is not noted until the following spring when the rower steps into a real shell...
...From the beginning of this campaign I have insisted that organization for world peace can and must be a bipartisan effort. I shall continue to insist on that approach...
...England in 1939 Dr. Sachs found Freud "very ill and incredibly old. It was evident that he pronounced every word at the cost of an enormous effort. . . . But these torments had not worn down his will. I learned that he still kept his analytical hours whenever he had a time of slight alleviation of pain. . . . He discussed problems and personalities of the psychoanalytic movement in America with full knowledge of the details. . . . The greatest part of the time we ... stayed in the garden and looked over the lawn where he rested, sometimes in light slumber, sometimes caressing his chow...