Word: strived
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Employment. "[We must] make sure that we have projects for the future employment of people and a forward movement of our industries, carefully foreseen, and secondly that private enterprise and state enterprise are both able to play their parts to the utmost. . . . We must strive to secure our fair share of an augmented foreign trade...
...world's records that swimmers strive for, only one has defied a generation of speedsters: the 51 sec. for 100 yards (free style), set by Johnny Weissmuller in 1927. Last week, in Yale's Payne Whitney pool, that mark too was washed away-by a 19-year-old Yale freshman named Alan Ford...
Victory was OWI's answer. It will be printed in six languages, shipped bimonthly to all accessible parts of Europe, Asia, Africa, Australasia and to U.S. territorial possessions-not to Latin America. OWI Outpost Bureau men will strive to expose as many millions of readers as possible to it. Current plans: 225,000 copies in English, 50,000 in Afrikaans, 75,000 French, 75,000 Portuguese, 40,000 Spanish, 75,000 Arabic; total, 540,000. Victory will sell for the foreign equivalent of 25?, will be doled out free to people the U.S. wants to impress...
...seek always and strive always in good faith and high courage, in this world where men grow so tired...
...MacArthur's enemy, Lieut. General Tomatore Horii, conqueror of Rabaul, who was desperate (he was almost captured fortnight ago in the New Guinea jungle). Now General Horii knew what it was like to strive mightily to reinforce battered troops when they were hemmed in on three sides (last week the fresh Americans took over the fiercest fighting assignments from the jungle-weary Australians). For his striving the Emperor's General lost a cruiser and two destroyers, blown to pieces by U.S. and Australian pilots...