Word: effort
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will be argued that the student effort to publish the CRIMSON as it stands is already prodigious, and I should be the first to agree. The answer is that the effort goes into the wrong places, into make-up and routine coverage mostly, operations which simply do not matter. Actually, the long habits of make-up, of a daily multitude of short stories carefully balanced according to the form book, have prevented editors from preparing and writing longer, thoughtful pieces about matters that seem important to the bulk of its readers...
They met in an effort to frame a Republican approach to the European Recovery Program-an approach which would differ somewhat from Senator Vandenberg's participation in the so-called bipartisan foreign policy. Republicans wanted to make sure that whatever total amount was appropriated for ERP was really necessary, and that the administration of ERP would be in competent hands. They also wanted to find a way in which the Republican Congress could put its label on the plan...
From Yuri Zhukov, Pravda's expert on the U.S., Russian women got the party line on the New Look. Longer skirts for U.S. women, Zhukov reported, were a desperate effort of industrialists to bolster the shaky American economy and stave off depression. He wrote: "There is no trick left that American merchants have not resorted to in their striving to sell goods...
...height his rather cleared at Brown. Barwise the younger will try to set a family record tonight and he'll have plenty of competition to push him. There will be Dave Albritten, second in the 1936 Olympics, and winner of last year's national A.A.U. high jump with an effort of six feet, six inches; and Irv Mondshein, N.Y.U. handy...
...will ask the College to place parking contracts in all registration envelopes next month, in an effort to make application as easy as possible. The committee will also conduct another campaign in the spring, when undergraduate cars emerge from the high-cost garages around the Square...