Word: effort
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...purpose of the move is to attract top-flight men to the bigger and better Advocate promised this term. Critical and controversial articles will be printed in an effort to avoid some of the "arty" material published in the past...
Business candidates are not the only ones who will have a chance at the Advocate's jackpot. Later in the year, a similar prize will be awarded for the best undergraduate literary effort...
...advised that Bishop Oxnam of Methodists does not speak for Evangelical Christianity. Our first effort is not to alleviate anti-Semitism or to hinder racial discrimination, as is the good bishop's, but to preach the gospel of salvation through the shed blood of Christ-the message of John Wesley which many Methodists and others seem to have forgotten. John Wesley preached "Ye must be born again" (John...
...spoke in hotel dining rooms and town halls, from jerry-built platforms and trailer trucks. He gave no impression of a man seeking office for himself. He put his biggest effort into giving the state ticket a boost...
...blueprint, it will be unable to remedy the basic imbalance (she thinks that by 1951 Western Europe will still buy $13 billion worth more goods than it can sell in the U.S.). The long-range cure, and the long-range bulwark against Communism, must be a supreme European effort toward Western Union...