Word: effort
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Felton broke his foot there on Monday, practicing the shotput. A faulty toe-board shattered during his effort...
...this scholarship program does not dispose of unlimited funds, and even those it has are already to a large extent earmarked by the tastes of donors. If these were to be spent in the effort to restore athletic prestige and profits, it would mean the practical end of that philosophy...
Points are scored every time a player on one team laps a member of the opposing team. A "jam" is an effort to score a point and occurs when one of the faster men on a team is shaken loose, usually on a crack-the-whip maneuver, and tries to steal a lap on the opposition. He is given two minutes to do this and the number of points he gets depends on how many of the opposition he passes. In the meantime, the skaters on the team that has a jammer out try to slow down the members...
...also gave to the world several other U.S. secrets:1) that U.S. scientists, in trying to make a superbomb, have already made one six times as powerful as the Nagasaki "Model T"; 2) that the U.S. goal is a bomb 1,000 times as powerful; 3) that the present effort is to "find some way of detonating a bomb before the fellow that wants to drop it can detonate...
Another major change is the arrangement of charities on the solicitation card. In an effort to emphasize student charities, as opposed to national ones, only special student appeals are listed separately. National and local charities such as the March of Dimes, Red Cross, and Community Fund, are lumped together at the bottom of the card with the statement that the contributor should single out those to which he wishes to give...