Word: efforts
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...battle is to be fought, not by artillery and soldiers at the front, but by the civilian population at home. It is a direct effort by the rank and file of the people to help win the war. Its success depends on cooperation. All the organization developed by the first Liberty Loan will be brought into play again, as artillery to blast the way. Every hamlet and town in this country must be reached before the artillery preparation is complete. Hard behind it, marching in the barrage of shells, will come the civilian infantry, consisting of every income-earning citizen...
...endangering the permanent interests of the business by giving inferior service to customers. But the reduction in attendance will certainly be much more than ten per cent. and the Co-operative Society will be very fortunate if its business does not shrink in corresponding ratio. For this reason every effort will be made to secure larger patronage from the University's population, what-ever it happens to be, and also to develop business with Harvard alumni living in Cambridge, Boston, or neighboring communities. Practically every branch of University activity faces a deficit for the coming year. The Co-operative Society...
...refusal of that all-magical Government sanction, which was so eagerly, so optimistically, and so long expected, was naturally disheartening, since it seemed to render negligible all effort of men in the Corps. The withdrawal of the Army officers detailed here is another, and a more immediate misfortune. Rumors of other changes, of the detachment of the French Mission, and of radical modifications of the training schedule, however foolish and baseless such rumors may be, have had a sorry effect on the firmness of purpose of many...
...cigars, dreaming that their words make the nation shake. The newspapers are the German papers, which still consider themselves aggrieved, and continue to cry out against "perfidious Albion," who is our ally. But it is not pro-Germans alone who, by word, are striving to prevent our full effort...
...fact that the country is seriously preparing for war, it has seemed to the Class Committee inappropriate to hold an elaborate or expensive celebration." The Secretary of 1897 writes that "the conclusion reached by the Class Committee that the 20th Reunion be reduced to the minimum of expense and effort in the form of a simple class dinner represents an apparently unanimous view, so far as any expression of opinion has come to the attention of the Secretary. Perhaps under brighter skies we may some day recover this vanished celebration." For 1902 "this year it was proposed...