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Word: effort (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Coach Art Valpey devoted the bulk of his time at the practice to seeking a replacement for Chuck Walsh, who broke his leg Saturday against Princeton and will be out for the rest of the season. Valpey has brought Hugh Edmonds up from the Jayvees in an effort to find a new second string offensive quarterback to replace Walsh...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Prepares for Brown With Offense, Defense Drills | 11/9/1949 | See Source »

...crack at the British when he called upon the governments to give exporters "direct incentives." Said Hoffman: "Practically all Europe's exports are furnished by private producers. Governments may set targets ; they may exhort; but unless sales in dollar markets bring adequate rewards to sellers, the great effort required to enter and hold those markets will never be made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ECONOMICS: In the Anteroom | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

...Pennsylvania Museum cellar) was slowly unrolled. Painted on muslin, it showed the myths and marvels of the Mississippi valley as sketched or imagined by one Dr. Montroville W. Dickeson, a Burton Holmes of the 1850s, and executed by the "eminent Irish artist" John J. Egan. What Egan's effort lacked in accuracy and technique was more than made up for by its scope and unfailing liveliness. It was a rare example of a recent but lost art, as far removed from the modern as New Caledonia is from the Mississippi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: A Century of the River | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

...faculty members of its choice; invitations will go out to the selected professors the week after next. Only Moors Hall has not yet made its decisions. Each of the larger dorms will have approximately six faculty affiliates, while Bertram and Eliot Halls will have five each. An effort will be made to represent as many University departments as possible...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Annex Announces Dorm-Faculty Tie | 11/4/1949 | See Source »

...might be surmised from the title--"Texas, Li'l Darlin'"--and the foregoing commentary, the plot makes no noticeable effort to avoid the cliches apparently inherent in a Texas theme. Though I do not share in the anti-Texas feeling one hears frequently voiced, it does seem that a whole evening devoted to variations on this single theme is too much to ask of anyone. All of the other rural jokes are there, too: the Scars, Roebuck catalogue, the outhouses are good for two laughs, and so on. Several of the lines are of questionable taste, and one remark goes...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: THE PLAYGOER | 11/2/1949 | See Source »

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