Word: efforts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Conference concerns not only the student publications, but the student body as a whole. This year an effort will be made to increase the number of students representing the college. In addition, several meetings, in contrast to last year, will be thrown open to students and faculty members, without reference to their participation in the Conference. In this way many will hear distinguished men in various walks of life who are attending the Conference...
...Woman Rebels (RKO). Ever since Katharine Hepburn set the cinema industry by the ears with Little Women, her employers have been trying doggedly to discover just what elusive factor, added to the stock formula of Lavender & Old Lace, made that picture so sensationally successful. A Woman Rebels represents an effort to discover if the element was the revolt of a young girl against convention. That the experiment is conducted with painstaking care only makes it the more apparent that the hypothesis is faulty...
...LOOK TELL ANSWER ANSWER TELL. Mrs. Houdini signed a statement that this was in her husband's code, but later seemed un convinced that she had actually heard from the dead magician. Last month she announced she would try once more to hear from him, that if this effort failed she would never try again...
...coupled the names of the King and Mrs. Simpson, or the facts of their friendship and her divorce. This had been done only by a mimeographed London weekly tipsheet, The Week, of negligible circulation. Pontificated Pundit Lippmann: "The reticence of the British press cannot be put down to an effort of the King to suppress knowledge of his regard for Mrs. Simpson. The true explanation is that the British press is forbidden by a recently enacted law to make a public spectacle out of any divorce case. It may print only the bare facts of the legal proceedings...
...architects to plan a big lodge (capacity: 250). With Charles N. Proctor, Harvard's ski coach, U. P. engineers set to work on a lift which will carry the customers 1,500 ft. above the valley's floor. A modification of the ski-tow, which requires the effort of hanging on, the ski lift will reduce the physical exertion of skiing to almost nil. At regular intervals on a continuous cable moving 400 ft. per minute (a fast walk) are suspended chairs into which the skier may flop without removing his skis...