Word: efforts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wheat, which is the major item to be saved this year, can be conserved only by individual effort, Reynolds concluded. Wheatless days would be acceptable if bread remained available in the Dining Halls for dissenters; and any wheat saved could be shipped to Europe...
That a weekly copy of TIME was available to our voyaging Canadian in the major cities of his continental tour is cause for some pride and considerable effort on the part of TIME-LIFE International, which publishes and distributes TIME'S four overseas editions. For TIME'S circulation abroad is governed not only by reader interest and knowledge of English, but by a host of factors known to every U.S. foreign trader. Chief among them-because of the world-wide dollar shortage-are foreign government exchange controls and import restrictions...
...been--unwillingly but faithfully followed. The Harvard and Yale teams have fallen far short of preseason hopes or expectations. But, as in the past, both conscious strategy and the insidious but unconscious aura of the game inexorably combine to save the special play, the hardest tackle, the all-out effort, for today. The explosion that inevitably follows produces exciting football, unexcelled football. It is touched of when two ordinary teams suddenly find their particular niche in the unpredictable common denominator that is football and become part of a legend...
...Dick Harlow has played his cards with almost limitless skill. . . . There are some men who cannot be repaid for their effort in mere money, and certainly no amount of the stuff can have recompensed Harlow for the unequal struggles he always has fought and the brilliant victories he often has achieved. For this man, I ask the miracle of a victory." --November...
...felt himself slipping lower and lower for catch pharses. Is it worth the effort? He got an idea. A game. See how stupid a remark can be and still get laughter. He waved a lamb chop at them. I'll tell you, this food is strictly from hunger. No belly laughs but plenty of snickers, Vag noted, amused himself for the first time...