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Word: efforts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...left bank of the Charles, or, more exactly, in Phillips Brooks House last night, the French club fought a tossup battle over Brooklyn and Beacon Street accents in a game effort to recapture "I'esprit gaulois" on no stronger fuel than ice water. (It was called punch...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: French Existentialist Erotics Find Outlets in Champagne and Chanel | 10/16/1948 | See Source »

Police have taken the bomb's remains to the State Police Laboratory in an effort to discover its origin. They provisionally attribute the bomb to a prankster's attempt to re-create the excitement of the January 9 robbery...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Petard Fills Coop With Smoke, Cops | 10/16/1948 | See Source »

...first television effort in the Harvard Debate Council's history will hit the airwaves at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Army-Harvard Debate Scheduled on NBC-TV | 10/15/1948 | See Source »

Silent airplanes have buzzed Soldiers Field for the past week in an effort to determine "how quiet is quiet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Silent Planes Circle Over Soldiers Field For Noiselessness Experiment | 10/13/1948 | See Source »

...grandiloquent language, the heroic characters, the poetic prose that on re-examination turns out to be well-nigh meaningless. Its failure is so complete in this respect that it may be that Sandburg's greatest service to American literature will be to have ended this sort of imaginative effort-"the great American novel"-once...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Portions of Wisdom | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

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