Word: effort
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Varsity system of cuts from the guards and pushshots from the foul line vicinity worked poorly all evening, and most of the Crimson points came by dint of individual effort and Tiger defensive lapses...
...Administration's strategy began to emerge. Southern Senators, who had wandered off the reservation, would be told that Harry Truman did not intend to be "vindictive." The Southerners could vote as they pleased, but any effort to thwart the majority's will by filibustering a bill to death (such as an anti-poll-tax measure) would be sternly punished by cutting off federal patronage...
...Gimo had all but yielded to repeated pleas for his resignation and a peace bid to the Communists. How could Chiang Kai-shek hold out when his Northwest commander, Chang Chih-chung, had counseled another effort to negotiate? When the commander of the armies defending Nanking, sturdy Pai Chung-hsi, had wired him to step aside? Even his sworn brother, ex-Premier Chang Chun, had urged him to "retire into the clouds" and let others less disagreeable to the enemy make overtures for peace. Vice President Li Tsung-jen was ready to propose a cease-fire and immediate peace talks...
...years Toronto, Canada's second largest city (pop. 700,000), has forced its mayor and 22 city councilmen to run for election every year. Proposals to give them two-year terms have been voted down three times since 1940. This year another effort was made to get longer terms. Such groups as the Bureau of Municipal Research, the Women Electors' Association, the Local Council of Women, and the Young Men's Section of the Board of Trade got behind the proposed change...
...effort to acquaint students quickly with the system of Lamont Library, a special handbook has been prepared and will be on hand at the library...