Word: efforts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whether the admissions, advisory, and tutorial systems, which are all related by a thread of continuity, carry out the theory. Perhaps the answers to these questions lie in the statement in President Conant's report for 1937 that "the immediate task before us is the intensification of our effort...
...M.I.T. sailed for ahead in a moderate but steady easterly wind, gaining 141 points in 13 races, Brown, Williams, and Dartmouth fought for second. The Harvard entries, however, outscored all except Tech on Sunday in a vain effort to recoup their Saturday losses...
...special feature of the issue is the parallel editorial columns on page 2. Column 2, of this page contains the masthead of the 1913 board, with an editorial and a letter reprinted from one of their papers. This year's board has made an effort to parallel to column of 1913, with an editorial on the same subject as taken up by the 1913 men, appearing in column...
First real shock to reach Downing Street from Teheran was arbitrary cancellation of the Anglo-Persian Oil Co. concession scheduled to run until 1961. Surprised British statesmen, suddenly realizing that protection of this oil lease would involve great military effort and huge expenditures, ended by negotiating. Anglo-Persian's basic holdings were enormously decreased and the Shah obtained increased royalties which were promptly earmarked for the army. This highly successful instrument of national freedom, now 100,000 strong, still receives its daily orders from His Imperial Majesty...
...them still do, but in the past four years 107 daily newspapers have been forced to sign Guild contracts or to post pledges of minimum wages & hours. To make these gains, the Guild has had to organize 15,000 editorial and business office workers, finance 17 strikes. Present effort of the C. I. O. Guild is twofold: 1) unionization of all except A. F. of L. mechanical department workers, and 2) universal acceptance of the Guild shop, a condition it has been able to impose in only 20 of its 74 signed contracts...