Word: efforts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Defensive work has been stressed during the past few days, with especial effort being made to strengthen the forward defences which permitted the Bruin booters to score...
...will mark the first time in recent years that officials and students from every walk of college life have participated in a common effort to attack with cold logic the evils...
Another Egyptian lickspit, if possible more heartily detested by his people than the Premier, is Ismail Sidky Pasha. He once made a fine puppet Premier for Britain (1930-33) and itches for that palmy job again. In an effort to shake Britain down and make it seem necessary to buy his silence, Statesman Sidky abruptly flew into a rabble-rousing rage last week, roared out part of what any Egyptian leader would say if he tried to speak for the long-oppressed and today spunkless Egyptian people...
...wrong more than half the time. Then comes a committee which is wrong most of the time. Finally there is the committee of company vice presidents who are wrong all the time." "Manufacturing is something unnatural," he continued, "something based on the best utilization of material with the least effort in the least time. Research is something natural. Like anything natural, it must be prodigal in time, money and effort. A herring lays a million eggs of which only one may be hatched. The sun is a spendthrift when you consider that only a minute fraction of its light & heat...
...rhinoceros at 300 yards, making a beautiful shot that filled him with elation, Karl casually brought down one twice as large. When Hemingway traveled without his guide into wilder country to bag a kudu the real object of the hunt, Karl shot a much nobler specimen almost without effort. Since Green Hills of Africa is an attempt to write "an absolutely true book." Hemingway does not conceal his acute jealousy of Karl, or his bitter disappointment when each of his achievements was bettered. Since the book is also an experiment "to see whether the shape of a country...