Word: efforts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...full Appropriations Committee (Chairman: Senator Glass) promptly approved the subcommittee's handiwork 17-to-7, reported it out to the Senate. There, Senator Adams predicted, "We will probably get the whey beat out of us ... as usually happens when the subcommittee makes an honest effort to economize...
...south one force drove up the narrow shore line to Sitjes and beyond. Barcelona was 15 miles away. From the northwest another column came down on Manresa. Barcelona was 30 miles away, but this force was headed toward the sea north of the Loyalist capital in an apparent effort to encircle the city, cut it off from France. The western attackers reached Martorell. Barcelona was 10 miles away...
...There is no need to declare a Republic of Ireland. . . . There is no need to reaffirm the declaration of Irish independence. The hour has come for a supreme effort to make both effective, so in the name of the unconquered dead and the faithful living we pledge ourselves to the task. . . . We call upon the people of Ireland ... to assist us in the efforts we are about to make in God's name...
...Bullet Bob" Gammons '39, comes out of a year's retirement with his torn leg muscle "as good as new," in an effort to dominate the fifty-yard dash field...
...table or washing dishes should be obliged to pay an Old Age Insurance Tax, in order to provide him with a theoretical Old Age Pension when he reaches the age of 65, and you are greeted with a wan, incredulous smile suggesting that you have made a creditable effort to perpetrate a rather poor joke. Yet this is exactly what a solemnly paternalistic government at Washington, probably unintentionally it is true, has decreed...