Word: efforts
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...buying many books unless the purchaser has discrimination and intends to start a permanent collection. In case anyone intends to buy a large number of books, and does not object to the payment of a bonus to agents, he should nevertheless remember that he can by a little effort secure his books to better advantage at legitimate stores, and that his ill-advised purchases will have their effect, not upon him, but upon the multitude of non-investors who are besieged by an army of more or less incapacitated persons passing as agents. Indifferent attention to their tales...
...year's coaching. More far-reaching than this is the demand from undergraduates and graduates that some continuity in football coaching should be assured. We realize that football is not the sum total of our existence. But it is of enough importance to demand that we should make every effort to play successful football,--and that, according to present standards, is something to which we have not attained...
...king summons before him Loyse, a beautiful bourgeoise with whom Oliver-Le-Daim has fallen in love. Louis promises Gringoire that he will spare his life if he succeeds in winning Loyse within the hour. When left alone with her, however, the poet forces himself, by a supreme effort, to keep silence on the subject of the king's command. On the latter's return, Loyse for the first time realizes Gringoire's position, and declares that by the subtlety and sweetness of his conversation he has won her heart. The play ends in the ruin of Oliver...
...each of these informal dinners by the committee in charge, and in order to make them successful each man should come when he is invited. The dinners will be given about every two weeks until every member of the class has been given an opportunity to attend one. An effort will be made to have some outside speaker each time and there will be impromptu speeches by members of the class...
...everywhere evident, and above everything else the change that Coach Campbell had brought about in the ends was strikingly shown. It had been the aim of the coaches throughout the year to develop the ends, and the way in which the latter played on Saturday proved conclusively that the effort had been successful. Their tackling, as was that of the whole team, was as fierce and hard as has been seen in the Stadium for some time...