Word: efforts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...House conferees would fight for their effort to regulate a union's internal affairs (e.g., a $25 ceiling on initiation fees, etc.). The Senate was satisfied to let unions regulate themselves, although it did declare that "coercion or restraint" of workers by unionists would be illegal...
Provost Buck, in an announcement made earlier this year after Yale College tuition was boosted to $600 per year, stated that tuition for undergraduates would remain at the pre-war $400 figure in 1947-48, and that every effort was being made to raise funds by other means than an additional financial burden on the College student...
...reading rooms are designed as study halls alone, and will house no book-shelves or reserve desks. Casting aside the classic theory that a hard workbench provokes great mental effort, the plans call for six rows of easy chairs in each of the reading areas, as well as blocks of working "stalls" where men can study and take notes in privacy...
...cause the countries threatened by Moscow to lose confidence in the U.S., and will also invite the Russians to further aggressive moves. For the moment, Moscow is rather quiescent. It has made a significant (and long overdue) concession on Korea (see FOREIGN NEWS), and is concentrating on an economic effort to get the most that it can out of eastern and central Europe...
...tenets that . . . the subject-matter and the imagery of poetry should be ... related to the life of a modern man or woman; that we were to seek the non-poetic . . . and words and phrases which had not been used in poetry before." In this effort "the study of Milton could be no help; it was only a hindrance...