Word: effort
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bring the ball up against such an apparently new device, and Frank Bixler dunked two fouls. Hugh Hyde slipped in for a basket. Mike Keene converted a layup--all within fifty seconds. But the Crimson five was still three points behind, and Jack Torgan's long-range effort as the final gun sounded still left Harvard a point behind...
Harvey Pastel's best diving effort of the season failed to win by just five-tenths of a point, and Bill Hewes took third. Captain Johnnny Eusden, obscured by Ford and Macfadden, took two thirds. Don Ulen and Bob Aaron placed two-three in the breast stroke, while Gibby King was third in the backstroke event...
With all this effort and sacrifice, you will never find a copy on any newsstand, and few civilians will ever even see an issue. Yet the editors of Yank are planning even further expansions, and are organizing the world's first attempt at "chain store journalism...
...forces and declared the willingness of the signatories to serve in a mixed group. Prefacing the formal petition was a statement of the Society's desire to aid in the elimination of racial prejudice so that "the Negro people may with full faith in American democracy give all their effort to its defense...
This represents an effort by the recently re-organized Russian War Relief bodies at Harvard and Radcliffe to bring the meaning of Russia's battle closer to the average person in this country...