Word: efforts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dead for the many students who wasted their effort to gain admission through the notion that education means acquiring skill in the use of a limited body of facts, or worse still, that an A.B. from Harvard is an end in itself...
...committee considered giving the Japanese a demonstration "in some uninhabited area" in the hopes of frightening them out of the war. The idea was rejected. The demonstration might be a dud. "Nothing would have been more damaging to our effort to obtain surrender." The scientists agreed: "We see no acceptable alternative to direct military...
...narrow grounds that Japan had violated the rules of civilized warfare, while the U.S. and Canada clung to the Nürnberg view that aggressive war was itself a crime. Pragmatic ex-Gangbuster Keenan somewhat naively quoted Webster's New International Dictionary, second edition, unabridged, 1943, in an effort to establish a legal definition of aggressive...
...picture tells of its war-and of the world as a whole-in microcosm. On one small part of the front, hideously ill-equipped except in courage, Loyalist airmen prepare-to raid a Fascist airfield and to blow up a Fascist-held bridge. In this tiny, heroic effort, to no ultimate use, they succeed-and are destroyed in the attempt. In slow streams down the rocky mountainside, which are like the streaming of the nation's blood, the people of the region gather to watch, weep and salute, as dead and wounded airmen are brought down from their high...
...best comedy is the comedy of situation or of memorable character. Any playwright who attempts to pass off a motley collection of gags and giggles as a "light dramatic composition" is treading on thin ice, and Norman Krasna has not escaped the usual pitfalls in his latest effort to repeat the popularity of "Dear Ruth." His plot--the customary returning-soldier triangle--meets the traditional requirements, but a slow and uneven development robs it of most of its potentialities...