Word: efforts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...graduates have a chance of marriage--a realization that seems based upon statistics of a very optimistic nature, its girls will be trained to put up with their husbands; if not to put up, at least to put off. But Harvard, always the institution for supreme but unradical effort, will go even further and train further fathers, or present fathers, to put up with their children as well as to be put out by their wives. Since diplomacy ought to begin at home, it is proper that students should learn to keep the family peace; a Harvard man ought...
...direction, the Maintenance Department has commenced during the current year and expects to continue in the future a vigorous effort to so arrange its work that practically continuous employment may be given to its men throughout the year to the end that they depend on a pay check every week, winter as well as summer...
Professor Wild, speaking over the Colonial network, criticized sharply the new legislation as a peace-maintaining factor. Weighing the efforts of Congress to keep this country out of war, he said: "A simple reiteration of the legal fact that Americans travel and trade in wartime at their own risk that the government will not give them blanket protection in whatever they undertake, and the direction of energy into prevention of war now instead of this naive effort to keep us unentangled by a hodge-podge of embargoes and prohibitions these steps would be far more effective...
...identity of Messrs. Young & Kolbe was then established by their invitation to step down the corridor to another suite for refreshments. While Waldorf waiters poured drinks and passed canapes, the newshawks turned to in an effort to find out something about Messrs. Young, Kolbe & Kirby and how much they had paid...
...Chicago's Harris, Hall & Co.-the Bond Club last week turned out in full force. In a good-tempered reply to the Douglas broadside Banker Hall keyed his speech to the general thesis: "Always it is important not to kill a lot of fine wheat in an effort to stamp out a few weeds."As to the value of long-established banker-client relationships, Banker Hall quoted Britain's famed McMillan Report to the effect that what Old England needed was'not less but more co-operation between finance and industry along...