Word: effort
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sophisticated comedy is hardly at home in Hitler's Europe. But it is there, amidst scenes of the suffering and misery that have unfolded since 1939, that MGM has placed its latest effort at well-bred laughs, "Once Upon A Honeymoon." The cast is sure-fire, Ginger Rogers as a Minsky Melter gone broad A, Cary Grant in a reporter part tailored to his tongue-in-cheek virility, and a newcomer, Walter Slezak, as the type of Brownshirted bully that gestapoes himself into disfavor handily. But even these stalwarts are helpless in a plot that ambles from fantastic nonsense...
Though the details of the Army-Navy plan for the utilization of the colleges in the war effort are still obscured and still under discussion, no announcements were made during the vacation, according to University authorities...
...these, you will know which phases of the specialized tests to put the most effort into to get what you want out of it. If you know what you want, watch out for the stock phrase "That school is closed." If you want it enough, you may get it by persevering...
...fight for one's country is a struggle and an experience. Sometimes, unethical means may seem necessary to get items of equipment, to have an application for cadet or OCS acted upon or to get efficient results, but it certainly puts one on his mettle to make his effort felt...
Cruft's contributions to the war effort took a temporary back seat yesterday to the one place in Harvard that was least likely to come forth with any patriotic achievements as the Lampoon's ex-Narthex, Harold T. Meryman '44 announced the conversion of his Model A Ford to steam locomotion...