Word: efforts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whatever the excuses, there was no real effort to bring the U.S. people face to face with the crisis-a duty normally assumed by their President...
Down without Effort. Once you're out, Baldwin says, there isn't enough air to breathe. A special bottle of oxygen may fix that. But the "opening shock" at high altitudes is too great to risk. It is better to fall into denser air before using the parachute. Wright Field has developed a gadget that opens the chute at the proper altitude, whether the pilot is conscious...
Declining to comment yesterday on the effectiveness of a University contingent at the polls, Cambridge politicians could not minimize the weight of a possible 9000 politically conscious veteran students. Under the old system of voting by Wards, a medium-strong Harvard effort in Cambridge's Ward 6 could swamp the undermanned electorate...
...Theodore Ward; produced by Eddie Dowling & Louis J. Singer) is one more earnest, inept effort to picture the U.S. Negro on the stage as something more than a banjo-strumming, hosanna-shouting field hand. This one examines the struggles of a group of ex-slaves who are trying to hold on to Civil War land grants on an island off the Georgia coast. Without money or political know-how, and bedeviled at every turn by villainous planters, the Negroes doggedly stick to their freedom-loving principles as the forces of greed move in to destroy them...
...didn't move. With a great effort, he pried open his right eye, gave the floor a sweeping glance, and quickly closed his eye again. Sunlight was streaming into the room, and although he had no idea how late it was, Vag guessed he'd have to hurry to make it for lunch. But there wasn't any point in getting out of bed; he had much too much of a head on him. Outside on the grass he thought he heard afternoon noises-the pleasant thud of someone catching a football, a girl's unobtrusive voice, a small...