Word: efforts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...effort to stop further damage, Yard police, reinforced by prowl cars from the Cambridge police, were stopping all pedestrians in the area surrounding the Houses and in the Yard. They demanded bursars cards for identification...
...especially tolerant or you choke with hate. Gee, it's easy to hate these guys, if you let yourself. They're so awful. Every one a heel, everyone a procurer, every one a talker. Look at them." Bemelmans remains tolerant often with what must be a superhuman effort, and the book keeps a delicate balance between friendly sympathy and sharp satire...
...prevent the state's support of religion absolutely, provided such support could be given equitably to all religious groups. . . . [The] principle of 'separation of church and state' . . . goes no further than the prohibition of the establishment of one religion and the suppression of others. . . . The [effort] to make the separation . . . absolute ... is a reflection ... of the Protestant fear of Catholicism...
...This fear may seem in one sense justified. But in another sense it is an effort to cover up, by political action, the weakness of Protestantism in the field of religion itself. The anarchy of Protestantism, its lack of spiritual discipline, its ridiculous tensions between . . . versions of Protestantism ... its half-secular sentimentalities, all these weaknesses are more responsible for its sense of insecurity than anything that Catholicism may do politically...
...with such agencies as World Student Service Fund, International Student Service, "Junior Year Abroad", and the Institute for International Education has been called for specifically. Furthermore NSA has secured a seat on the United States commission for UNESCO (international commission chairman Robert Smith 1G will occupy it) in an effort to take part in top-level intercultural activities. In the item personally crucial to many here-student travel during the summer months-the commission has been instructed to begin negotiations immediately for low-cost transportation on special Maritime Commission ships, equalization of fares for the sexes, and arrangements whereby...