Word: effort
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...jump in food costs to students will not be to produce a "profit" for the Dining Halls Department, Reynolds declared. "Our effort in the dining halls is to come as near as possible to breaking even," he said...
Currently putting out Wake number six, the first issue to appear minus the Harvard name, Seymour Lawrence '48, John Hawkes, Jr. '47, and John A. Rogers '49 have transformed what was originally a puny effort to replace the wartime expired Advocate into a literary magazine with a national and international reputation...
Conrad Aiken '12, E. E. Cummings '15, Jose Garcia Villa, and Kenneth Patchen were some of the drawing cards that launched the quarterly on the way to becoming something more than an undergraduate effort...
Mather also attacked the "high-handed procedure of the Committee in failing to hold public hearings on the bill in an effort to railroad it through Congress...
...What's happened to Hollywood? . . . What inspired the effort to go intelligentsia instead of making the type pictures that made this great business what it is, or was? . . . This Academy Award thing . . . has done a lot to twist the type of our shows from entertainments to artistic successes...