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Word: efforts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME, April 14] seems to me not only wantonly wasteful but unchristian as well. Do the sweethearts, wives and mothers of these dead have to have their loved ones' bodies in Forest Lawn or Mineola cemetery in order to preserve their memory? Better to spend the money and effort in extending help to the still living in the war-ravished countries, as a living memorial to those men, and thus make future wars such as they died in less probable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 5, 1947 | 5/5/1947 | See Source »

American Veterans Committee housing leaders have sent out another barrage of letters in an effort to obtain more non-University living space for married students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AVC Sends Out Second Letter In Additional Housing Drive | 5/3/1947 | See Source »

Brendon Reilly, the Varsity baseball team's frontline pitcher, will be sent to the mound at Soldiers Field today in an effort to turn back the same Boston College nine which bested the Crimson, 7 to 3, at Newton last Thursday. Festivities commence at 4 o'clock...

Author: By Irvin M. Horowitz, | Title: Boston College Visits Varsity Nine Today | 4/29/1947 | See Source »

...high dudgeon, New York Stock Exchange President Emil Schram cried: "I am astonished, to say the least, that the Federal Reserve Bank of New York should associate itself with Marriner Eccles in his perfectly absurd effort to justify [his credit policy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Vote of Confidence | 4/28/1947 | See Source »

...rouge applied by an undertaker to the lips of a 20th Century corpse is one measure of 20th Century civilization. But modern man's effort to deny or minimize death is part of a much more important necessity-the need to deny or minimize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Tragic Sense of Life | 4/28/1947 | See Source »

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