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Word: effort (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...United Front. On Monday, when Parliament got down to business, moderate Opposition Leader Gordon Craydon of the Progressive-Conservative Party tried to water the briskly blazing political fires. His equivocal view: "Common sense indicates that every effort must be made to secure a united front in a united Canada in a greater and more powerful British Commonwealth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada at War: EXTERNAL AFFAIRS: Imperialism, New Style | 2/7/1944 | See Source »

...Commanders. Directing this spreading, rising effort was Admiral Chester William Nimitz at Pearl Harbor. Key men in Nimitz' command are men like him - hardheaded and cool...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE PACIFIC: Year of Attack | 2/7/1944 | See Source »

This concentration of effort touches the Imperial Household. Emperor Hirohito works closely with his service chiefs (TIME, Jan. 24); Empress Nagako comforts wounded soldiers (see cut), indulges in social work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Year of Decision | 2/7/1944 | See Source »

...their convention bargaining. So intent is Governor Warren on retaining this bargaining power that though denying he is either a candidate or anti-Willkie, he told a TIME correspondent last week that if Willkie should enter the California primary "I would indeed exert all my influence and all my effort against him." A few days later Mr. Willkie (who not long ago called Warren one of the nation's "great governors") announced that in view of the Governor's assurances of neutrality he had decided not to enter the California contest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Man of the West | 1/31/1944 | See Source »

...Reserves? The German Command is frantically trying to build up a new, real reserve. Lack of time, lack of manpower hamper this effort. Adolf Hitler confessed in his New Year message that he had to deprive his Russian front of reinforcements and send them to other "positions that are absolutely essential for the defense of Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts, THE ENEMY: Reverses and Reserves | 1/31/1944 | See Source »

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