Word: efforts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With the winds of a recent 6 to 3 win over M.I.T., whipping at their heels, the Varsity golfers will tramp the Winchester fairways this afternoon in an effort to make a smooth-stroking Bowdoin team their second victim of the season...
...Weiss Nicht." An angular, middle-aged woman, who had been weaving through the crowd from sidewalk to curb in a futile effort to keep her ill-shod feet dry, suddenly sighted the twelve men. She stopped in her tracks, stared wide-eyed at them for a full minute. Then she dropped her threadbare market bag, flew across the street in front of a lumbering, charcoal-burning truck and threw herself with a gasping cry upon the third prisoner. Prisoners and passers-by paused and gaped dumbly at the two Rodinesque figures fingering the backs of each other's rough...
Never a prodigy, Andrew had gradually learned to hit off the look of what he saw without apparent effort. Now his technique has become as unobtrusively slick as that of Surrealist René Magritte (see above). And for an age when storytelling in paint is frowned on even by academicians, Andrew's pictures are suitably storyless. His sharply sunlit Afternoon (on exhibition with 17 other of his paintings at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts last week) looks as pleasant, and as posed, as a vacation snapshot...
...attempt of July 20," says Author Dulles, ". . . was not an isolated, spontaneous coup, but part of a planned, desperate last effort to destroy the Nazi tyranny. . . . There was an anti-Nazi underground working in Germany, despite the general impression to the contrary. It developed out of heterogeneous groups . . . and reached into the vitals of the army . . . government, [professions], church and labor...
...Masters should remember that as much as they might desire it, College extracurricular life is College-centered and not House-centered and that the dining hall is the only place in Harvard's heterogeneity where even a fair proportion of the undergraduates can be reached without prohibitive effort...