Word: efforts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...parking area twenty minutes away from the Houses. With a tacit understanding between police and students owning out-of-state vehicles, most men found it convenient to leave cars on the street overnight, secure in the knowledge that their tickets would not be prosecuted. This autumn, in an effort to recoup the imposing loss of 1500 unpaid fines, parking meters have been installed on every conceivable curb and Cambridge police have asked the University for a list of transient registrations. A great majority of the 900 college-operated automobiles are now left without the comforting privilege of previous years...
...Irishwoman who has done social work in an improved Dublin slum. Like many other social workers who make copy of their experiences, Author Robertson sometimes commits to print anecdotes and adventures that probably sounded fine at the time but, in type, only seem strained and amateurish, like a genteel effort to make a smutty-faced child blow its nose. The savor of the subject, however, often rises above her polite intentions...
...ever-present bugaboo of registration and big game football standing endless hours in lines--has been attacked this year, in an effort both to shorten the wail and give more efficient service...
...effort to concur with current fashions at every turn, the editors of Radditudes, the Radcliffe monthly, last week lengthened their skirts, bared their shoulders and changed the name of their publication to the more modish Signature...
Forums will again constitute a major part of the Council's effort, with a symposium on freedom of the press already being planned. Last year the Council brought to the College many leading diplomats, including Sir Alexander Cadogan and Jan Masaryk...