Word: efforts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...radio: ''When you go out into life, you will come to understand that the individual in your community who always says "I can't' or 'I won't'-the individual who by inaction or opposition slows up honest, practical, far-seeing community effort-is the fellow who is holding back civilization and holding back the Constitution of the United States. . . . You are having opportunities to fall in love with and understand the great outdoors. Do not ever fall out with Nature and her wide-open breathing spaces...
...past four years Mr. Churchill has been slashing his own political throat, leading a series of vain attacks on Conservative Leader Stanley Baldwin in an effort to split the party on the India Constitution Bill (TIME, Feb. 9, 1931 et scq.). This Gargantuan measure now having been passed, ''Winnie" Churchill last week abruptly returned to the Baldwin fold, pledged ''whole hearted" support to the Government and strove to bandage his self-inflicted political wounds by the clarion announcement: "Dangers larger and nearer than Indian dangers gather on our path. . . . We have to play our part...
...students, employees and faculty members but the number is steadily growing as the men learn about the existance and efficiency of the staff. This group is served regardless of financial status unless the case involves persons with obvious ability to pay private counsel and would attract public notice. Every effort is made to avoid competition with the local bar in cases involving the general public...
This year a now departure was made which we feel will greatly enhance the value of criticism. All effort to cover the courses taken only by upperclassmen has been abandoned since it is believed that they have friends from whom they may secure information. The effort devoted to the Freshman courses, however, has been redoubled and this year a questionnaire was sent to all Freshmen asking their opinions of the courses they had taken. A gratifying number of men responded and their answers show consideration...
...love what had already been lost by politics. Far more convincing than his analysis of her emotional development is his picture of Mary entering Scotland when it had already been lost to Catholicism, groping wildly for support in the first years of her reign, marrying Darnley in a confused effort to satisfy Elizabeth, turning from Darnley when she found that the marriage meant only greater uncertainty and weakness. Marrying Bothwell, whether for political or amorous reasons, she allied herself with the strongest military leader of the kingdom, sank into despondency when his ineffectually became clear. She threw herself...