Word: effort
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...they escape notice they gather suddenly around the Sacred Flame and vent their spite in an effort not only to profane but to extinguish. With tolerance and discretion the Government of France ignores and hushes up such incidents. An official hastily re-lights the gas and the Sacred Flame is supposed to burn again as pure as ever at Paris. In Brussels, however, a far different attitude was taken last week by Most Catholic and beloved King Albert...
Gunfire commenced early. Mexico's election law provides, apparently in an effort to improve the shooting, that the first nine citizens who succeed in registering at a voting booth are thereby constituted the election board for the day. By noon hundreds of Mexican voting booths were wrecked, most of the others triumphantly occupied by Ortiz Rubistas. In Mexico City an automobileful of machine gunners swept past a mass meeting of disconsolate Vasconcelistas, killed four, wounded eight. In Vera Cruz, Vasconcelistas took their revenge by lynching a man by the name of Lopez...
Many institutions, including recently Yale itself, have made a definite effort to find proper accomodations for the undergraduates of visiting colleges and have made arrangements for their occupancy at very reasonable rates. The fact that there are several hotels in the Boston district does not in any way excuse Harvard from trying to find reasonably priced rooms in Cambridge for her visitors and giving these facilities adequate publicity. The high prices of the hotels and the definitely restricted number of their rooms place an obligation upon some Harvard organization to put at the disposal of her visitors some sort...
...ordinances on the way to or from the Harvard-Yale football game will be "promptly taken off the highway" was announced by G. A. Parker, Registrar of Motor Vehicles in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Plans for the thorough policing of roads to the Stadium have been made in an effort to prevent accidents resulting from the heavy traffic...
...last year, the debaters will make every effort to present the cases in non-technical language as far as possible, so that the arguments will be readily intelligible to the outsider...