Word: efforts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cigarette after another in his aluminum holder. Young John fell asleep. At midnight, his brother Tom was sent to bed. In the ballroom people started to trickle out. An elevator operator asked if it were true that they were stretching nets outside Dewey's windows. In a gallant effort, a Dewey worker shouted defiantly: "Are we downhearted?" Faintly, the crowd denied...
...seemed to have the presidency so surely within his grasp, only to have it elude him. With his own hand, he wrote out the telegram to Truman: "My heartiest congratulations ... I urge all Americans to unite behind you in support of every effort to keep our nation strong and free...
Such an expansion would require new railroads, factories, cities, and vast amounts of capital. Hundreds of millions of people, would have to move to new areas. But if the world wants to make the great effort, it can, by applying present-day techniques, provide food for more than twice its present population...
...final meeting tonight drive manager Frank H. Coyne '47 will assign one solicitor to every 15 men in College for the effort to top the $25,000 goal his committee...
This means that the Tigers will remain the three-point favorites they are tonight, come sun or high water. In an effort to beat these odds, Valpey will pit the same lineup that downed Holy Cross against Charlie Caldwell's veteran Princeton team...