Word: effort
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's end, as Allied planes pounded Sfax, Sousse, other Axis supply ports, Arnim exploded into a frenzy of activity, driving against French-held positions near Robaa and Kairouan below Tunis. His effort was to make room for Rommel to crawl in beside him and to divert Allied strength from the southern end of the Axis corridor. For a while his powerful tank attack looked as though it would develop into a full-scale offensive until Giraud's Frenchmen, supported by British and U.S. troops, stiffened and hung...
...such sciences as had long been known in the Far East. To the Chinese, surrounded as they were by nations inferior in civilization, their world was the whole world. Westerners then regarded this Chinese provincial complacency with annoyance or amused condescension, and patronizingly applauded the recent Japanese effort to acquire western knowledge. But bitter experience, culminating in the incursions of foreign powers at the end of the century, turned the attention of the Chinese people outward. Europe and America became a part of their world and the object of much earnest study...
...equals and backed up with the strength and will of the whole. Differing from opinions expressed on the opposite page, we maintain that constructive and active planning now are necessary if we are to obtain that peace. Such planning, we believe, is a powerful potential weapon for our war effort, and a necessary prelude for a lasting peace...
...each and all to mold our ideas and temper our feelings so that we may unify ourselves with all elements of strength in our country. Only through that unity among all our countrymen may there develop the highest energy of all parts of our national life for the great effort that our country now must make...
Proclaimed as "the men who get the message through," the Signal Corps provides not only specialist training vital to the war effort but also promising of a lucrative career after...