Word: efforts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...effort to coordinate student opinion on the proposed War Memorial Plaque, Harvard's American Veterans Committee chapter last night telegraphed the presidents of 60 graduate and undergraduate organizations to announce a mass planning meeting on Thursday...
...Nerve." At London, Britain's Foreign Minister Ernest Bevin summed up the Western position. He said: "If a settlement is to be blocked every time we try, we cannot go on forever with chaos in Europe as it is now. ... I shall strive with every nerve and every effort to get a politically united Germany. . . . But if in the end peace is denied, then surely you cannot expect us at this stage to stand still with Western Europe in chaos and not do anything...
Mexico's Ramon Beteta said that the effort to lower tariffs for highly developed and undeveloped countries "is treating unequals with equality." He explained that great industrialized creditor nations should cut their tariffs and yet allow developing nations to impose protective restrictions...
...effort to bring the "finer things in life" to such provinces as Chickasha, Okla., and Herkimer, N.Y., moviemakers have turned in recent years to the extravaganza bulging with classical music and them what plays it. One now touring the outlying districts and only just returned to Boston "at popular prices" is "Carnegie Hall." It has everything! Really...
...figure who must carry the tragic implications of the play, Mendy Weisgal put an evening of intense effort into the part of Hotspur but gave at best an uneven performance. Weisgal's gestures were artificial, he threw away many of his lines--and much of the motivation of the plot, for those who didn't know it--and added touches of external heightening in places where they destroyed the illusion of the performance. But in certain scenes--the early letter scene, for example--he rose to a distinctly superior level...