Word: effort
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...careful effort that has been made to minimize the shock of installing the House Plan, by avoiding too close an imitation of the Oxford-Cambridge system, has received several reverses in the proposed administration at Lowell House. The differences between it and its brother House are slight, yet they offer a certain basis for the contention that the new Harvard will be over-Anglicized; and they are definitely of a sort to restrain the development of the close relationship of student and tutor that is part of the House Plan. In Lowell House, the tutor's table...
General Crack (Warner). A fairly successful effort has been made to bring speed and glitter to this costume romance. It has all been expertly tailored for John Barrymore's profile, for his bark, his meditative scowl, his glance of an amorous lion, his strides in high, patent-leather boots. On a white charger he leads his mercenaries into battle and pushes back with long, stiffened fingers the cloaks attached to various 18th Century uniforms. He is a soldier of fortune who earns his living fighting wars for popinjay princes and who takes a dislike to his current employer because...
...Harvard Growth Study is unique and it is of exceptional important to the science of education and to every form of practical effort for the benefit of children. It consists of repeated measurements of the same children throughout the 12 years of their schooling by all the main, standardized measures of growth, physical, intellectual and scholastic...
TWELVE AGAINST THE GODS-William Bolitho-Simon & Schuster ($4). "In reality, the whole history of human progress from the flint-jabber to standing room in the subway . . . is the result of two forms of effort, the guard and the search, made by the Home-stayer on the one hand, and by the bold affronter of the new on the other; that is, by the citizen and the adventurer." Upon this somewhat labored proposition Author Bolitho presents, en brochette, the characters of Alexander the Great, Catiline, Mahomet, Columbus, Cagliostro and Seraphina, Casanova, Charles XII of Sweden, Lola Montez, Napoleon...
...whose motto is Success. On a political visit he sleeps once more in the old bedroom where the boy once slept, and in a fantastic and pathetic dream sees the boy he might have been deadened and frustrated by the success he has willed for himself. He makes an effort, but life and his family and circumstances are too strong for him, and he kills the dream to become Chancellor...