Word: attempt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Guards Back" suddenly failed to function, and Harvard won by 10 to 0, and was off on another string of wins. A defense against the "Guards Back" was devised by W. H. Lewis '95, which smeared every attempt...
Remember "Brown of Harvard"? It was one of the first of the modern college pictures and was an honest attempt to portray student life at a large university without the usual attendant hokum. Harvard itself formed the background for much of the picture. Of course the problem of proper dress cropped up immediately. Jack Conway, the director, solved it by sending to Brooks Brothers of New York for appropriate clothes for his principles. In addition he used as a guide various snapshots taken in and about New Haven. Men's Wear. Cicago Apparel Gazette...
...five crews were chosen as evenly as possible, no attempt being made to select a first boat...
When the reviewer of the current Advocate says of that magazine that it "makes no attempt to amaze the reader with its culture" he is making a low bow in the direction of the stables of Pegasus. The insinuation, obviously enough is to the effect that in spite of Rockwell Kent and a highly developed aesthetic complex the Hound and Horn has yet to surpass the oldest of college publications...
...woman had no business to attempt such a flight. It was perfectly ridiculous to read of this young person's chatter, of her preparations for the event?her vanity bag, Chinese ring, knickers, black and red four-in-hand tie and pastel-shaded band over dark brown hair?and to remember that she was going to risk her life just to gratify her stupid vanity...