Word: efforts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...infallible" editors of TIME are human. So my purpose in writing you is merely to express the conviction that some researcher in Soviet America of tomorrow will uncover this letter in your expropriated establishment and experience a tiny glow of appreciation for my hopeless, but well-meaning effort to confuse the omniscient...
...Hall, slams the door, slaps his brief-case upon the desk, and whacks his hat on top of the brief-case, he does not produce the desired effect of exciting the admiration and awe of his class. Rather is the reaction one of perplexity at the uselessness of human effort, or, perhaps, sympathy for misguided well-meanings...
...matter of fact, the difficult, challenging opportunities which means a lifetime of effort, opportunities for creative business, opportunities for the start of a full, useful, and successful life. Easy opportunities abound. Three hundred and twenty-eight graduates of M. I. T., Northeastern, Tufts, and Harvard, have been employed by the State of Massachusetts for the last twenty months. They are occupied in making a "control survey" of the state, establishing latitudes, longitudes, and elevations in 175 cities and towns. No matter how worth-while the project from the point of view of Pure Science, that kind of employment is wasteful...
Embryonic instrumentalists, toting everything from bass viols to disappearing rabbits, will file into the Music Building this and tomorrow evening from 7 to 8 o'clock. There they will "strut their stuff" before the heads of the five Instrumental Club organizations in an effort to prove themselves capable of entertaining Boston audiences, famed for their cold attitude toward everything theatrical...
Last week in the fifth round of its long and litigious effort to tag Aluminum Co. of America as a monopoly, Baush Machine Tool Co. received a sharp and sudden jolt. Most aluminum fabricators can use scrap but the chemistry of the Baush product requires pure ingot aluminum, which the company has to buy abroad (over a 4¢ per Ib. tariff) or from Aluminum Co. of America, sole domestic source. The Baush management regards Aluminum as an unfair enterprise. Aluminum's opinion of Baush was summed up by an Aluminum lawyer who, noting the company's succession of deficits, remarked...