Word: efforts
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...couldn't help my own cause. I recalled my second effort at the SATs, when I was stumped by the word "jejune" in the analogies section. Everywhere I looked for the next week, there was jejune--the women was jejune, the tree was jejune, every thing was jejune. Now, three years later, on the toilet, reading Time, there was a review of Glamorama. In the featured books section of the Harvard Book Store, there was a copy of Glamorama. In the dining hall, in an awfully contrived effort at an intellectual conversation with an old freshman acquaintance whose name...
...They cram as much into hourlies as possible," Schutz says. "No one held a gun to Einstein's head. Some people get turned off because they're not fast enough, but [speed] doesn't judge your effort or understanding...
...Colored People wishes to go on record as believing that it would be better to close the University than to permit it to become a vehicle for disseminating the poison of race and religious hatred upon which the infamous Klan depends in recruiting its membership. We trust that every effort will be made to discover those responsible for bringing this organization into Harvard and that they will be expelled when their names are known. Nationwide experience with the Klan has demonstrated that where it has not been dealt with sternly and promptly it has become futile to attempt...
...change in the make-up of the Board of Regents would give minority applicants advocates in the U.C. system and provide a welcome balance to the virulent conservatives like Regent Ward Connerly who spearheaded the anti-affirmative action effort. Current regents have been appointed by 16 years of Republican governors preceding Davis--in fact, former Governor Pete Wilson pushed strongly for the anti-affirmative action vote...
...tower burned Sept. 6, 1956, ironically in a restoration effort, when the acetylene torch of a worker set the structure ablaze. Its restoration will begin in June and conclude within a period of one to two years...