Word: efforts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What is taking place at Salzburg after all this effort is more than learning from books. People are learning about people, and in that the Americans are as much as anyone else. They are finding out that the national barriers they had feared might be prohibitive are indeed surmountable in this castle, where a higher mutual interest holds all together...
...renowned has said, "I am dealing here with a subject of which I have felt a part for many years, but I have been forced to present it in an entirely new way. As a result I have been working harder here than I ever expected to, but the effort has been incomparably rewarding...
...than 250,000 lived in Hiroshima. Of these, 175,000 survived the blast. Today, Hiroshima's population has grown back to 210,000. Almost every woman has a baby on her back. Of 60,000 dwellings destroyed, 23,000 have been replaced. The most significant feature of this effort is that 98% of it is black-market construction carried out by the people themselves in defiance of plans and rules...
...effort to close the perilous gap between the progress of science and the progress of morals, Yale University announced last week that it will double its science courses for liberal arts students, double required courses in the humanities for science majors. Said Dr. Edmund W. Sinnott, director of Yale's Sheffield Scientific School: "Science alone may make monsters...
...Lord Duke. As if in a nostalgic effort to recapture the glorious days of imperial and Tory Britain, when life was ordered and largely predictable, his listeners were neatly sorted on hierarchical lines. With Churchill on the speaker's platform was the tenth in the line of the victor of Blenheim ("My Lord Duke" Churchill called him), cool, calm and ruddy. Beside him sat his Duchess, magnificently hatted with two feathers sweeping from under a black brim...