Word: effort
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spring season, Leverett won softball, took second in tennis and golf, and captured fourth in crew and baseball. On the other hand, Kirkland made its supreme effort by sweeping crew, baseball, tennis, and golf, and taking second in softball...
...further upward-spiraling of taxes and living costs, I predict that a large segment of the population will find it impossible to meet their obligations. If they seek employment in war industries they will leave unfilled services that can well lead to a serious disruption of the whole war effort...
...last week went a man who carried many of the answers in his big, black-thatched head. He is huge, gorilla-shouldered Robert Nathan, 34, former chairman of WPB's planning committee. Nathan was one of the few New Dealers who demanded billions of dollars for the war effort when the services couldn't see how they could use millions. Profiting by the lessons of the war, he was one who fought vigorously to expand the nation's raw material supply when the services went hog-wild in building plants to produce munitions for which they couldn...
...weeks the Nazis had been forecasting an intensified U-boat offensive, a climactic effort to throttle the Allies' offensive plans in Europe. Submarines were indeed abroad in herds, but up to this week the offensive had not attained the promised scale. Now, or never, was the time for the effort. If Germany won, an Allied second front in Europe would be indefinitely postponed. If she failed -and her time was running out - the first great breach in the Atlantic Wall of Hit ler's Fortress Europe would be accomplished...
...from admitting that it is a source of news, A.P. insists that "the source of news lies in the event itself. Access to the source of news is open to all who are willing to expend time, effort and money. News is, therefore, a product which . . "belongs to the producer." In short, A.P. sensibly claims that news events cannot be monopolized. This view does not grapple with the charge, which is that the means of spreading the news is monopolized. Another A.P. argument is that "if the news gathered [by] A.P. and its members were required to be made available...