Word: efforts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hiroshima, however, was stressing construction and optimism. Just a year ago the city began a boomtown effort of clearing and building. New and restored structures are everywhere; a Hiroshiman guide apologizes with old U.S. booster hyperbole: "Sorry, but these buildings were not here yesterday...
...same time he was completing plans to place upwards of 100 beds on the floor and two balconies of the Indoor Athletic Building's basketball court in an effort to house, even temporarily, the overflow at registration...
What has come of all the effort is a unique experiment in international education, a school in which students from 16 nations have come together to learn as much as they can about America and American life in six weeks. An outsider visiting the school needs only a short time to discover how unusual it is in its mutual enthusiasm, the close relationship between its faculty and students, and the tremendously effective informality of its educational method...
Underlying the whole academic effort is a thirst for knowledge. Just the use of English as the medium for all communication presents a challenge. Students read into the small hours--and not to cram for examinations, for the only academic hurdles are voluntary papers suggested by their seminar leaders...
...that we are at war with Russia, it must be the prayer and effort of every Christian to help win the war at the moral and spiritual level without letting it reach the shooting stage. It is our duty to realize that Communism is pagan, anti-God, and antiChristian...