Word: endeavored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Swamped Raft. After that, the heaving arena between ship and plane became the scene of desperate endeavor. The Bibb laid down oil slicks. A bigger, 15-man raft was maneuvered up to the plane, loaded and gotten out to open water where a small boat pulled passengers aboard. Three loads-seven people, then ten, then eleven -jumped or were pushed out of the plane into the raft. It was wild work...
Success in burglary, as in other fields of human endeavor, depends on keen awareness of changing values. In London's Mayfair last week, a promising burglar broke into the apartment of Adman Patrick Dolan and took...
...Washington: he is straining to win national support for President Truman's Citizens Food Committee. The stakes are the lives of distressed millions in Europe and the relief of threatening inflationary pressures at home. Yet colossal as the need looms, the University community has not entered the Administration's endeavor. Measures capable of institution here may seem small in proportion to the enormity of the issue, but they cry for adoption; and "meatless Tuesdays and poultryless Thursdays" spell only a start...
Crisis in Paris. There was a crisis of the Marshall plan-that hopeful but somewhat vague U.S. endeavor to solve Europe's economic and political crises. The 16 nations convened in Paris had made scant progress toward mutual self-help (see Conferences). This crisis might still be overcome, but it was psychologically damaging...
Questions for the Sages. In the auditorium of Nanking's Officers' Moral Endeavor Association last week, Chinese witnesses and the dead men's kin were doing their best to help the court-martial try Corporal Aldrich. U.S. authorities hoped the Chinese would be impressed with the fairness and exactness of American justice. But the Chinese frankly found the procedure somewhat opaque...