Word: efforts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mary by an Englishman, Artist Cecil Beaton. "The decorations have a monotony without uniformity," wrote this lily-loving young photographer of noble ladies. "There is too much woodwork. . . . The main lounge sadly misses the discarded Duncan Grant mural. The effort at being modern is decidedly forced. . . . The Veranda Grill, however, is by far the prettiest room on any ship. . . . When constructing a boat, even a luxury liner, the English do not consider their women very carefully...
...your candidate for President, no longer a citizen merely of one state, but a son of all the 48 states, Franklin D. Roosevelt!" At that traditional signal all hell broke loose on the convention floor. Delegates danced and pranced, whooped and hollered, marched and capered in a mighty effort to display their enthusiasm for their leader. For a full hour the parade milled round & round the hall, giving off all the noise that lungs and instruments could make, carrying placards with which each state tried to outdo the rest in promises of victory. Sixty-one minutes after the demonstration began...
...solving student problems. The contributions of the Lowell regime to higher education in America are now history of which Harvard is justly proud; but they are rendered more valuable by the fact that for the past three years under President Conant Harvard has seen no diminishing of the effort toward continual elevation of the academic standard...
...interesting and sound." And in Heaton Hall, the Red Lion Inn and other hostelries in and around Stockbridge were gathered a "team" of 800 Oxford Groupers from all over the world, in whose wake followed some 2,000 paying guests at Dr. Buchman's most ambitious U. S. effort to date, a "National Assembly...
...would solidly continue the Journal's present highly successful management, the Wahls and Mrs. Pierce told the Milwaukee court that the suggested price of $3,500 a share was too low, that the same legal firm represents both trustees and prospective purchasers, that the trustees have made no effort to find other buyers for the stock. County appraisers, whose findings are subject to court review, said the stock was worth $5,000 a share...