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Word: efforts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...European governments have experimented with radio sets limited to domestic reception-radio ears that will be structurally deaf to foreign voices. But still the main effort goes to answering propaganda with propaganda...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Crisis Credit | 10/3/1938 | See Source »

Although this step came as a direct result of the memorandum, it by no means solved the advisory problem: for the most efficient system, coordination of effort between the Dean's Office, P. B. H., the Hygiene Department, and Advisers was deemed to be essential. In view of Dean Leighton's burden and in line with undergraduate opinion, as expressed in the Crimson, an assistant to the Advisory Board was appointed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEW DEAL FOR '42 | 9/27/1938 | See Source »

...student will have to get used to that awesome word Bibliography without which intellectual effort cannot be translated into the all-important marks. And to that end William A. Jackson has come here as an Assistant Librarian (in charge of the Treasure Room and Associate Professor of Bibliography, in which subject he will give a course next year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Widener Library, Third Largest in United States, Opens Its Unlimited Resources to University's Newest Students | 9/27/1938 | See Source »

...fundamental effort to prevent another World War by reshaping the whole fabric of existing relations between the major European states was launched this week at No. 10 Downing Street, ten minutes after a black rainy midnight. The chiefs of Britain and France could not reach this momentous decision, or even get down to discussing it for eight solid hours at No. 10, without having first decided last week -for reasons of high policy-against fighting either for Czechoslovakia or with the Soviet Union, both treaty allies of France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Four Chiefs | 9/26/1938 | See Source »

...Gable pretends to destroy the film. It remains to plague him through frame after frame of realistic action. By the time Myrna Loy has saved Gable's job by direct appeal to his boss, snubbed his arch rival, quarreled with him, and, unknowingly, accepted his aid in an effort to find a brother lost in a South American jungle, Too Hot to Handle has done too full justice to its subject...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Sep. 26, 1938 | 9/26/1938 | See Source »

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