Word: efforts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Worst of all, the effort to develop such an unnatural alliance of backward states must alienate the natural allies...
...avoid the excessive crowding which has always characterized these affairs in the past admission this Saturday will be by ticket only. Upperclassmen will be barred in an effort to get a reasonable male-female ratio...
...their rivals, and came to the same initial conclusions. One way to get atomic energy, they decided, was to separate the reactive U-235 from the other uranium isotopes. The U.S. did this successfully at Oak Ridge, Tenn., but the Germans soon concluded that the enormous industrial effort required would be too much for war-burdened Germany...
...effort by some airlines to attract more aerial freight cargo, United, American, and Pennsylvania-Central last week were pressing the Civil Aeronautics Board for permission to reduce their freight rates on a number of commodities an average of 33⅓%, putting them just a few cents higher than those on railway express...
...rather pathetic picture because everyone concerned with it is obviously trying very hard to do something good, powerful and out of the ordinary. Occasionally, this effort brings the picture to life. There are also a few good flashes of melodrama. But on the whole, Deep Valley is reminiscent of many of the solemn little-theater plays of the early '20s: i.e., it is lost in mawkishness and pseudopoetic feeling masquerading...