Word: efforts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...elderly, grey-haired Lawyer Baldwin, who is a past president of the National Publishers Association, onetime vice president of McGraw Hill Publishing Co. and longtime personal counsel to the late Charles Francis Murphy, Tammany boss, was not content to leave his Creme de Menthe jingle as his sole recorded effort, though he says: "No man likes to be known as a poet." He sought and obtained permission to recite to the inquisitorial committee another verse...
...disparity of their ages and accomplishments, Dorothy was too independent a character to let Bennett regulate her, intimates that she domesticated him more than he revised her. They never agreed on the subject of her intuition. On one occasion he stubbornly gambled away 1,000 francs in an effort to show her that her hunch about a certain number was nonsense. Though he never succeeded in weaning her from unpunctual habits, his husbandly summation was a nutshell masterpiece: "I regard non-punctuality as bad manners. I don't expect you to be punctual; I know you are not capable...
...things which impressed the whole group was the total absence of any propaganda of any sort, or of any attempt to show only the most favorable aspects of France. There was an absolute freedom and unrestraint of the type which should characterize any real effort at good will between the youth of two nations. Moreover, not only were the ancient glories of France displayed to the visitors but an intimate view was also given of the modern France. There was a visit to the Manufacture de Sevres where the famous porcelain wares are turned out; a tour...
Their statement reads: "Resolved, That while recognizing the general advisability of an endowment policy, the Student Council feels that, although it may be advisable to reduce schedules to a minimum, every effort should be made to retain the Minor Sports on a formal basis...
...Harvard," he claimed, "is the only large college in the East at which I have not spoken. A special effort, indeed, seems to have been made to keep me away. It is pretty exclusive, I suppose, and is more interested in higher things. In spite of that, however, God bless Harvard and the CRIMSON...