Word: effort
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Problems related to the war effort, ranging from the shortage of teachers to government education, defense programs, and analyses of conditions in China, India, and Russia will be the topics of discussion. New officers for the Association will also be chosen at the meeting...
Playing an important role in the war effort, the Harvard Astronomical Observatory is undertaking 11 distinct types of military research which occupy the full time of about 25 members of the observatory's scientific staff, Harlow Shapley, director, reported to President Conant...
...center of gravity of Russian effort moved north with the weather (see above) the Germans counterattacked in the south. For the time being they and the mud stabilized the southern front...
...German armies in the Ukraine with those on the northern front. If this drive between the fronts succeeds in cutting that line, the Russians will have made it less easy for the Germans to shift forces laterally from south to north. That would hamper the Germans in their effort to counterattack eventually in the north as they did last week in the south...
...effort to nip this unfolding market in the bud has actually endangered the sanctified privacy of Britons. Police on the Great Western Railway have been seen to eye gentlemen with bulbous suitcases. There has been talk that officers have gone so far as to think of requesting British citizens to open their packages. Last week, when the King & Queen visited Midlands factories, the Queen was handed an orchid bouquet. The King smilingly warned the Queen: "Be careful, if you take those flowers on the train-you don't want to break...