Word: effort
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Briefly recapitulating, this plan would solve the meat shortage in the College, help to solve the housing shortage feed the handicapped of Boston, and save countless hours of intense effort on the part of men, women, and deans...
Throughout the treaty, there is a determined effort to prove that the Pact is in perfect-accord with the United Nations Charter. Although the declaration that the nations of Europe and North America constitute one regional area is indeed a strained interpretation of the UN Charter, it is a necessary interpretation. The signers do not want to do away with the United Nations; they believe the UN is the source of eventual peace and prosperity, as stated in the preamble and article one of the Pact. But the UN is clearly unable to cope with the present crisis. Its Charter...
...looked over some of the movies of last fall's games," the 27-year-old former B-17 pilot reports, "and we saw evidence of good individual effort." Gannon says "everybody will start with a clean slate." Last fall International won two, lost four, and tied...
...hour this week, Christians throughout the U.S. will join in a common effort. The goal: raising $10 million to help rebuild the churches and charities of Europe and Asia and to find a place in the world for thousands of displaced persons. The means: a single, hour-long radio program to be broadcast on Saturday, March 26 (10-11 p.m.) over all the stations of at least three major networks, followed by a special collection in 76,000 churches the next morning...
...result is a study of people responding to something they do not quite believe in, arming themselves against imaginary dangers, moving forward irresistibly to a titanic disappointment, and yet overcoming, on the way, so many hardships that their effort became heroic in spite of themselves...