Word: efforts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year 1939 two battleships, two light cruisers, eight destroyers and six submarines. Since that time world events have caused me growing concern. . . . The fact is that in the world as a whole many nations are not only continuing but are enlarging their armament programs. I have used every conceivable effort to stop this trend and to work toward a decrease of armaments. Facts, nevertheless, are facts. and the United States must recognize them. Will you, therefore, be good enough to inform the subcommittee on Naval Appropriations that after the next session of Congress has met, it is possible that...
...pulled the population of Tsingtao down from 500,000 to 50,000. South of Shanghai, the great city of Hangchow was down from 500,000 to 150,000. Meanwhile native Chinese official communiques switched suddenly to a new technique of reporting the war. Instead of making the time-honored effort to fool the Chinese masses by telling them their troops were fighting bravely and that such-&-such a Chinese city would not surrender, the new Chinese newspaper refrain became: "When the Japanese capture the city they will find only ruins...
...almost" factor was provided by negotiations in Hankow last week between Generalissimo Chiang and the German Ambassador Dr. Oskar P. Trautmann. acting for Japan. News of these talks, although every effort had been made by Trautmann to keep them secret, was broken by dispatches from Hankow routed to the outside world via Moscow. What were said to be the "mild peace terms" being offered by Dr. Trautmann were then released at Tokyo. Japan asks China to pay the cost of the war; she asks the Chinese Government to repudiate Communism and accept Japanese advisers; China is then to recognize Manchukuo...
...past decade, tyrants have bent scientific effort to military and political ends. And many a man of good will has wailed that science should take a holiday because it has created the modern instruments of war, and technologic advance has caused so much sociological dislocation. Most scientists, if they have been left to their benches and desks, have been too busy to heed or hear. But last week when the American Associatioi for the Advancement of Science met at Indianapolis, it was perfectly plain that its leaders had begun to think about science & society. Their defenses and explanations of science...
...tell American Water Works to get rid of its prune orchards. But if it wished to, said the Commissioners, it could take "a reasonable period of time" to sell them-an obvious effort to convince other utilities that if they become a little more sociable SEC is perfectly willing to make friends...