Word: efforts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hansberry, a 26-year-old former Navy lieutenant and veteran of four years, is married and the father of a six-months-old girl. He had never made any kind of effort to gain office for himself before, and isn't exactly sure he wants to make a career out of politics. But so far he is batting...
...effort to screen Communists from the pedagogic profession or to weed out alleged disloyalty was branded "a witch hunt" by the famous anthropologist, "which might take on political and partisan coloration...
...painful and wearisome failure lies the Harvard Dramatic Club's fall production for 1947. That it is brave to attempt the resurrection of a mouldering and awkward work by Henrik Ibsen can hardly be denied; the question is whether sufficient resources lie behind the bravado to justify the effort...
...former will be a last resort. Nearly every other major eastern college has hiked its tuition already, but Harvard's huge endowment has enabled it to maintain. its twenty-year-old rates. The Business and Medical Schools, however, have jumped their tuition, and in an effort to stave off similar rises in the College and other Schools, President Conant appealed to the Alumni last June for an endowment increase in the neighborhood of $50 million. On the result of his appeal depend future tuition rates...
Radcliffe's Seventieth Anniversary Fund, with a goal of $800,000, has also employed the talents of Susan Reed in an effort to meet the June, 1949, deadline...