Word: effort
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From the day Britain went to war, U.S. citizens and their press have freely criticized the British, their Government and their war effort. The British have seldom talked back. But last week, with U.S. foreign policy beginning to loom large in the politics of war and peace, Britons of all political complexions showed a growing concern with the meaning and direction of U.S. policies...
...Enlist. The psychologists believe that reasons for man's enlisting his whole effort may be separated from the reasons he fights. Twelve reasons are offered for enlisting. Among them: mass suggestion, adventure, personal glory, natural combativeness, maintenance of selfesteem, "feeling of oneness with the nation and faith in the nation's leaders," faith in democracy, spirit of sacrifice...
Spreading Thin. The American Bureau for Medical Aid to China (now part of United China Relief) is represented in China by Dr. George W. Bachman. Though 52-year-old Dr. Bachman speaks in platitudes ("I am looking out for a way to help the war effort"), he is a topnotch scientist with a talent for organization. From 1918 to 1922 he lived in China, teaching biology at Huping College. When the Bureau sent him to Chungking last April he had for eleven years been director of Columbia University's famed School of Tropical Medicine in Puerto Rico...
...knew what the grand jury was doing, while they did not; he had the satisfaction of watching as the grand jury handed down 34 indictments based often on evidence Dillard Stokes had dug up; in July 1942 he received the Heywood Broun Memorial award for "persistent, tireless, intelligent" newspaper effort...
...Rewards. However vital to the war effort, Donald Roebling is not making a penny from his Alligators. He turned the whole invention over to the Government, waved aside all commissions, even got Food Machinery to cut its contract price. To Donald this is his contribution to the war and he is glad to make...