Word: efforts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...article on War in Spain TIME, April 18, is a prize sentence ending "the Leftist Cabinet reorganized itself for a last-minute effort to crawl between the jaws of defeat and wrench out the tonsils of victory." While they are in there they ought to hammer a couple of nice little wooden pegs in the Eustachian tubes. That would fix them...
...Announcement by its chairman, Jesse Jones, that the RFC was ready to loan funds to utilities, underwriters and businessmen on their inventories (see p. 53). Meanwhile, what U. S. Business was inclined to consider the most helpful move of the week was not the Administration's effort to pour water into the well but a Congressional effort to give thirsty Capital a drink from its own spring-by modifying taxes (see below...
...pitching political curve balls. To Pennsylvanians therefore it seemed phenomenally unnatural that Mr. Wilson should have been able to daub Mr. Earle along with Little Matt and to make some of the mud stick on both. Yet the mayor accomplished this feat last week in the furtherance of his effort to do the Governor out of nomination to the Senate...
Seeking their second victory in six starts, the Varsity lacrosse team will meet New Hampshire on the new athletic field at 3:30 o'clock. Coach Skip Stahley has concentrated much power in the midfield positions in an effort to stay in the running for the league championship...
...curricular work would have been much smaller. The House system is to a large measure responsible for such a difference for it provides opportunities for those who do not want to take much time from their work. Less than a third of the total number admitted that the extra effort was detrimental to their marks...