Word: attempt
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...attempt is being made to unite under one head the different athletic organizations of the University of Pennsylvania...
...attempt to obtain the site of Delphi for excavations has been fruitless as the French claims have proved to be founded upon better grounds than was at first supposed, but the school has carried on a series of original investigations and has obtained a number of interesting and valuable discoveries at Platea...
...duty to attempt to communicate to those upon whom the blow of his death has fallen with even greater weight than upon us, his fellows, some idea of the deep sympathy which we have for them in their sudden and overwhelming trouble...
...Yonson," which is not, as many suppose, the attempt of an anglomaniac to pronounce "John Johnson," would never be used as a substitute for laughing gas,- but like a great many other things, it goes...
...view to scoring another touch-down; that some further action be taken to prevent men from locking arms in the formation of the wedge; and that when the referee has inflicted the penalty of giving five yards, the count of the downs shall be recommenced; -that is the next attempt to advance shall be considered the first down...