Word: efforts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...comes back is the effect on my mind. In each of the two experiments which I performed there was a moment when my whole mental outlook altered. As I lay naked in the cold room I had been shivering and my limbs had been flexed in a sort of effort to huddle up, and I had been very conscious of the cold. Then a moment came when I stretched out my legs; the sense of coldness passed away, and it was succeeded by a beautiful feeling of warmth; the word 'bask' most fitly describes my condition...
...point at which shivering ceased, nature fought the situation; my instinct was to be up and about, an effort of will was necessary to remain the subject of the experiment; after that point I gladly acquiesced, initiative had gone...
...that I could have gone into a court of law and sworn that one at least of the two was correctly taken. On the occasion on which we had been in 10% carbon dioxide, when I came out I was retaining my grip of things only with an effort...
...Longest of all, the Landon tele gram was dispatched from Topeka, Kans., although Mr. Landon that day was only a few blocks away in Chicago's Congress Hotel. Wrote Franklin D. Roosevelt from the White House: "You have demonstrated . . . that problems which can not be solved by individual effort can be met by co-operative action...
...human life than the last. With no concrete solution to offer, he nevertheless suggests that his theoretically powerful audience can prevent war if the desire to do so is genuine. If it does not do so, he announces with ferocious urbanity, "Sirs, here are your blue-prints," in an effort to make terrible alternatives terribly plain...