Word: effort
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lieut. General Curtis LeMay, Air Force chief in Europe, had called for a special 24-hour effort. The entire load was to be coal, to be distributed as an Air Force birthday present to families with two or more children in the Western sectors of Berlin...
...laity of the diocese had gathered to watch a radio recording of Dark Victory, with Celeste Holm, and Walter Abel playing the leads and Walter Hampden as announcer. Next month the recording will be heard over 549 stations, including the Mutual Broadcasting System, as part of an ambitious effort to reach the 70 million Americans who belong to no church...
...Miss Gilbert was nominated in an effort to achieve harmony...
...18th Century," says Thompson, "the population of Occidental lands has undergone a growth in numbers and a change in distribution which ... is unprecedented. These revolutionary changes . . . are for the most part by-products ... of scientific knowledge . . . Because they are by-products they have received little attention, and almost no effort has been made to control or guide them in the interest of the group...
Grand Strategy. Had Amsterdam actually accomplished anything? Had the long, slow, painful struggle toward church unity been worth all the effort and all the talk? Christians around the globe applauded the words of one of Amsterdam's leaders, New York's Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam: "The need for unity is urgent . . . Our disunity is a denial of our Lord . . . We cannot win the world for Christ with the tactics of guerrilla warfare . . . This calls for general staff, grand strategy, and army. And this means union...