Word: efforts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That the chances of a decisive victory for the Christian Democrats have improved in the last few weeks has been due more to the enormous effort put forth by the recently organized Catholic Action than by the increase of American interference in the form of letters to relatives, suggested return of pre-Fascist colonies, and speeches by the American Ambassador. The success of this group, working in every parish through Cardinals and priests to get out the vote, may well be the deciding factor in the election, since the apathetic votes represent the potential supporters of the de Gasperi party...
Wrong Guess. Indiana-born Correspondent Planner, 56, had not waited so long for her glass of champagne. She was honored last year for her painstaking, 25-year effort "to explain France to the Americans," but missed the presentation ceremony...
...class folks,* the doctors reported in last week's Journal of the American Medical Association, are particularly prone to psychosomatic (mindbody) troubles and chronic illnesses. One big reason is the American yen for "making good." The middle class works especially hard at trying to make good. The constant effort produces strains and tensions (people "feel the necessity to improve their condition, rather than to enjoy their existence"), which in turn produce unhappiness and maladjustments...
...possible to have a happy, harmless case of the d.t.s. The movie will undoubtedly bore some people, disgust some and delight others; but on its novelty value alone, it may make a lot of money. The mere thought of the human and subhuman labor and patience behind the entire effort appalls the imagination, let alone the intelligence...
Ideally, an increased effort should be made to contact more graduate students and members of the Faculty in person. Failing this, it is up to these people to acknowledge their part in the W.S.S.F. drive on their own conscience, and to realize that a form letter can carry just as much urgency as the most persuasive door-to-door solicitor...