Word: effort
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Every effort is made to get the work done without charge, and is many cases Salmen has been able to clear up the difficulty himself. The Committee on the Correct Use of English, the advisers, and the section men have also helped the students...
...discussing Frankfurter's policies, Laski stated, "By the general public, Mr. Justice Frankfurter is regarded as likely to be a radical influence on the Supreme Court. It is perhaps permissible to suggest that this is a wrong approach to his philosophy of the judicial function. His effort has always been to persuade the Supreme Court to the realization that it is the road to creativeness as well as an obstacle to particular types of experiment. He has sought, like the two great predecessors in whose place he now sits, to warn the Court against becoming the third, and final chamber...
...records by one band and see which is what and why. About a year and a half ago, Gene Krupa's band made a record called "I Know That You Know" (Brunswick). It was the first record they made, and as a matter of fact, was their first band effort. This record was not only stiff, it suffered from rigor mortis, and here's why: everybody in the band, particularly drummerman Krupa, was playing ahead of the beat. As you play the notes of a melody, it sets up a four-four tempo. Krupa was depending...
...snatch cigars from the lips of subway smokers), celebrated his 85th birthday in his usual fashion, delivering a good-natured diatribe to newshawks against whiskey, wine, beer, capital punishment, the killing of animals, the eating of flesh. Said he: "The dear chickens, how they scream and struggle in their effort to break away from the hands of the assassin. If it were right to kill chickens there would be no expression of fear on the part of the chicken." To show up meat eating, he told of how he utterly confounded a woman who argued that one must eat meat...
...committee was appointed to consult with rowing authorities in an effort to carry on these trials despite the cancellation of the Games, and perhaps to extend the regatta to include foreign crews...