Word: effort
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mass may, indeed, be "mysterious" to Protestants, but if it is "mumble-jumble and "mysterious" to Catholics they have only themselves to blame. Priests from pulpits and Sisters in classrooms have talked themselves hoarse in an effort to induce these "many Catholics" and their children to use the Mass Missal...
Last week students at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism got a look at a new stylebook that attempted to standardize U.S. newspaper usage. A valiant effort to combine common usage with common sense, it would soon be required reading in many a newsroom, as well as in classrooms...
...master that I planned to do an essay on some subject. It wasn't the deadline that mattered, it was the quality. At Kent, we were told to have an essay ready on an assigned subject by Monday morning. Everybody just dashed off something with the least possible effort. Students at Kent are just shoehorned along to graduating." The boys talked about sex "for hours & hours," but were innocent of political ideas...
There is a constant illusion that you are watching an extraordinary effort to get cattle across a certain immense expanse of difficult and threatening country, that you are learning a lot about how such a job feels and gets done, and that the perpetually wrangling players are important not so much of themselves, but because the whole success or failure of the attempt depends on these people. The attempt is really the story, and the "background" is really the hero of the piece, and its villain...
Hawks obviously likes and understands men, grand enterprise, hardship, courage and magnificent landscape. The greatest satisfaction of this picture is continuous and unobtrusive. It is the constancy with which all outdoors, and all human endurance of it and effort to conquer it, keeps bulging the screen full of honest and beautiful vitality, like a steady wind against a well-trimmed sail...