Word: effort
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Such an award carries with it added distinction in view of the fact that there was no special effort made on the part of the Harvard School to go into deliberate competition for the prize. When an organization receives such an honor in the discharge of its ordinary routine, it may be regarded as a sign of healthful enterprise and initiative...
Cotton's Boast. The State Department has been working cooperatively with the Navy in an effort to attain specific agreements as to the Navy's needs. Representing the State Department has been Undersecretary Joseph Potter Cotton, onetime Manhattan lawyer. Out of these State-Navy conferences last week came this story: Undersecretary Cotton, impatient with the Navy's attitude on cruiser design and gun effectiveness, remarked across the council table: "If I could not design a cruiser with six-inch guns that could whip a cruiser with eight-inch guns, I'd go and jump...
...glorious but not a comfortable ride. Two centuries have not improved the wheels and axles of the Lord Mayor's Coach. Jouncing, bobbing, bowing Sir William Waterlow was perspiring from the effort of keeping his equilibrium before he reached the Inns of Court...
...Must One Die?" With no sure majority anywhere and with party leaders sulky, it was necessary to appeal to the whole Chamber?Right, Center and Left ?in an effort to split or stampede blocks and groups. As a keen, go-getting logician fond of dates and statistics, M. Tardieu knew that he could not depend on himself to kindle and fire the Deputies. He left the ignition to great Aristide Briand, Europe's supreme Parliamentarian...
...most recent volume to be prepared by the John Barnard Associates, the autobiography of Walter Crane, is again an artistic effort representative of the excellent taste and good judgement of this group of Harvard bibliophiles. The facsimile of the Shelley Note Book which they announced several weeks ago, represents another work which is one of the most notable contributions for the aid of English scholars in recent years...