Word: effort
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...real sense of him as their leader; in that difficult period, Douglas MacArthur was a warm and compelling personality only to a few officers on his personal staff. His airmen felt that he understood neither them nor their problems and potentialities (like many airmen, they perhaps made no great effort to understand General MacArthur...
...fact that Henry Stimson hoped the people would learn: the civilians in the U.S. war effort were not pulling their share of the load on the farm or in the factory. His remedy, now also before Congress: a general service act which (as in Britain) would put every man and woman on call for service in the war economy...
Since 1940 State Senator Frederic R. Coudert's Legislative Subcommittee has been chiefly noted for its efforts to wash out leftish teachers (TIME, Dec. 16, 1940; March 31, 1941). But in its new report the Committee advocated several left-of-center measures, wound up by citing Britain's welfare planner Sir William Beveridge: to get maximum war effort from citizens, make them feel that the Government is planning "a better world...
Located on the top floor of Widener Library under the direction of Ralph Barton Perry, Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy, chairman, and the Steering Committee, consisting of the heads of the various committees, this group is now performing many tasks to further the war effort...
Rogers had only a yard edge on Barnes at the finish, and the Crimson merman's time was well under five minutes, his best clocking at this distance. In the trial heat which he won, Dave turned in a 5:02.3 quarter-mile, also better than any previous effort...