Word: effort
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since all of us in the Reserve Forces are trying to accomplish in a few short months the training which would normally take many years, it behooves us all to make an exceptional effort to achieve as much as we can in the short time at our disposal. The academic pace set for all is terrific, but a very great percentage of you will be able to succeed in mastering...
...Prague and Vienna. She was in Germany during the frantic days just before Munich when the Czechs were mobilizing and France was calling up her reserves-crossed five miles of mined border into Holland en route to Britain - there heard Chamberlain defend before the House of Commons his tragic effort "to keep peace in our time" while his countrymen were feverishly digging air raid shelters and experimenting with barrage balloons. That same year she visited Canada to meet the Dominion's key officials-and in 1940 she traveled to Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, Santiago, Lima and Quito getting...
...make such a choice. The nation's press and the flow of dispatches to the U.S. in recent weeks have reflected a mood of moderate pessimism. The British Government-as distinct from the great body of the British people-is worried, and apparently has made some effort to let its chief allies know that it is worried...
...Water Boy to the ends of the earth, broadcasting and making hundreds of gramophone recordings, Robeson has been working on a vast treatise about African culture, has tackled an invention for improving acoustics. In addition he has learned a dozen languages, including Chinese, Hebrew, Russian, Welsh. For the war effort he has sung in camps all over the U.S. (even in the South), worked for the Treasury Department, broadcast to Europe for the OWI. Robeson has never shilly-shallied about his leftist sympathies, never blinked other minority problems than his own. Says he fiercely: "No Negro would dare be anti...
...Three had been allied for two years. Yet this was to be their first mutual effort to determine the political bases on which the alliance could rest, the best ways to defeat the foe and assure a lasting peace. If the three ministers could agree, their chiefs could come together for the final talks...