Word: efforts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...never said so publicly, has been quoted as saying that the six-month basic training period contemplated under U.M.T. would be valuable chiefly as a character and health builder; that as training for a modern war it would be largely valueless. The airmen contended that the money, time and effort could much better be spent on combat aircraft and in the training of regulars for the Air Force and the Navy...
Stimson made some effort to divide the blame. "To the Air Forces, the Navy was a backward service with no proper understanding of air power; to the Navy, the Air Forces was a loud-mouthed and ignorant branch which had not even mastered its own element...
...funeral of Gandhi, however, is best read after a glance south from Delhi, to the place where stands a monument, the Taj Mahal, to another dead Indian. The great Shah Jehan built it to immortalize the memory of his empress' beauty. It is man's most eloquent effort to deny that the body and its beauty dies. It is a triumph of the mortician's art. Some may try to raise a Taj to Gandhi (the prettifiers will scarcely be able to stand statues of that ugly body). But Gandhi's true monument will...
...thatched Frank Gurley, Varsity captain, timed his kick just right in the 1000, jumping a bunched field on the gunlap and winning by five yards. His time-2:15-compares favorably with Reggie Pearman's 2:14:6 winning effort in the Lapham 1000 Saturday night at the B.A.A. games...
...effort to recover more of the $50,000 loot, detectives assigned to the case plan to search several more safe deposit boxes today...