Word: effort
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...many of you undoubtedly know from reading your newspapers and TIME, one result of this effort by the U.S. press to tell its readers about the Navajos' plight has been a cascade of letters to Congress and the White House. Significantly enough, several Congressional committees have now visited the Navajo reservation. Another result, of course, has been the multitude of contributions from all over the U.S. for Navajo relief. In case there could be any doubt of their necessity, a letter we have received from the justly famed American Friends Service Committee speaks for the accuracy of the press...
...fried snakes for Christmas dinner), but also how to make life a merry hell for the horse thieves. With feet bound in leaves, to make no tracks, the children do the villains out of their horses, their boots, their food, their water; they shadow their prey pitilessly in their effort to get out of the wilderness...
...Jean Stafford's The Mountain Lion, a funny and tragic little story of children in the West. Another was Bend Sinister, Russian-born Vladimir Nabokov's brilliant nightmare novel of European life at the advent of dictatorship. Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano, an ambitious effort to analyze a modern type of disintegrated personality and to make it universal, failed in the second aim; but his descriptions of a Mexican setting were memorable. The finest short stories of the year were perhaps V. S. Pritchett's It May Never Happen and J. F. Powers' sketches...
This year, as you may know, we are participating in a city-wide Community X-ray program through which we hope to X-ray 80,000 Cambridge residents in an effort to stamp out tuberculosis. These X-rays will be free to Harvard students, faculty and other college personnel on a voluntary basis...
...effort to give everybody an opportunity to run, Mikkola has formed A and B quartets in both the one and two-mile varsity events as well as in the freshman one-mile relay. The two-mile test, matching two Crimson teams against one from Brown, will open the program at 4:30 o'clock...