Word: effort
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Third, the Teachers' Union resolved that "in time when widespread suspicion and organized pressure threaten the independence of university scholars, every effort must be made to preserve the principles of academic freedom, and special effort should be made to avoid stigmatizing or punishing members of the faculty who profess independent or unpopular views...
...Chicago Tribune lives and grows because it is first of all a newspaper. It spares no expense, no effort, to gather the news of every significant development and trend at home and abroad. And it prints it, completely and without compromise, in the public interest...
Seventy-eight percent said that their Departments had not "made an effective effort to inform, students about careers open to them," while just 28 percent thought chances of getting a job "very good." This last figure, Dean Wild added, "reflects deteriorating employment conditions...
...makes Editor Thornton, in demanding that Gardner be fired, revert to stereotyped white brutality, and he makes President Rogers seem culpably weak for giving in. The thesis: Editor Thornton's liberalism has never been much more than a way of satisfying his own vanity, and Rogers' lifelong effort to educate his race has actually-and even consciously-played into the hands of the segregators...
...Lisa Kirk is the only variety show soubbrette I ever heard who realizes that the vocal chords and not the nasal passages are the proper origins for sounds emanating from female vocalists. If thirty entertaining minutes out of a whole week's effort can be interpreted as a good sign, there still may be hope for radio...