Word: attempt
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...this morning the 1923 harriers, for the second time, meet the Yale runners at New Haven and attempt to win back the laurels wrested from them last Saturday. The Freshman teams of M. I. T., Yale, Dartmouth, and the University are the entries in the invitation race which will be run on an almost level and rather sandy three and a half-mile course in the vicinity of the Yale Bowl...
According to the quota assigned to the University, only 50 men can be sent from Cambridge to the convention, but the committee here hopes to have this quota much enlarged. At attempt is now being made to let the University send as many representatives as wish to go, but as it will take some time to hear about this matter definitely, the committee cannot yet say who will or will not go. When the University's quota is decided upon the committee will choose the men to go from those who have signed...
...Everybody died in a desperate attempt to live at the expense of Everybody else...
...soldiers established in France, expressed himself as feeling that this scheme of the government to fill in the gaps made in the education of so many young Americans because of the exigencies of the war, fulfilled its purpose, judging from the satisfaction expressed by the students themselves. "Certainly the attempt to make students out of soldiers was more successful than the attempt to make soldiers out of students as exemplified by the S. A. T. C.", he said. Professor Coolidge served in France as liasion officer attached to the France as liasion officer attached to the French headquarters, from...
...they do not see the reason of this argument, the public does. The latter receives no increase in wages, but shares the same burdens. Federal investigators claim that yielding to the workers demands would mean a ten dollar extra tax on everybody. For a small minority to attempt to force such a liability on the nation is criminal. This movement must be fought to the finish...