Word: efforts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...against "restrictive practices" by both labor and capital. It urged more output per worker. But the truth was that the British worker was not working very hard, and neither the British capitalist nor the Government was taking measures likely to supply either the incentive or the compulsion for greater effort. Nearly all British industries, for example, still worked only one shift, because workers were reluctant to change their accustomed hours. Said London's Times: "The trade unions hold the fate of this country in their hands as the R.A.F. held it seven years...
Next day in Paarl, a hotbed of nationalist sentiment, royalty met "General" Hendrik Marsh, whose fascistic Ossewa Brandwag organization's purposes have ranged from sabotaging the British war effort to outlawing Santa Claus as a British imperialist importation.* Said Marsh afterward: "The Royal Family captured us completely by their gracious simplicity. We expected pomp. Now that I've met Their Majesties, I'd personally like to ask them to stay here...
...Christendom is merely one of five civilizations that survive in the world today [the others: Orthodox Christian, Islamic, Hindu, Far Eastern]. . . . Within the last four hundred years all five have been brought into contact with each othe. . .as a result of successive expansions. . . . [We historians] must make the necessary effort of imagination and effort of will to break our way out of the prison walls of the local and short-lived histories of our own countries and our own cultures...
...their need is great. The activity of the Student Committee in this far-sighted humanitarian enterprise is a cause for pride on the part of all those in this institution. The first drive was a great success. Those who are in a position to give must see that this effort does not fail. James B. Conant
George Hauptfuhrer's 14-point effort in the Varsity's losing performance at Hanover Wednesday night established a new season scoring record for a Crimson basketball player. The six-foot-four-inch center has totalled 329 points in 20 games, eight points higher than Wyndol Gray's total of 321 points last season...