Word: attempt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Together with worldwide enthusiasm and wishes for success, the French flyers held the public confidence in their attempt. So common have the wonders of science become that in the average mind there is no admission of chance of failure, no realization of the impotence of modernity's most trusted inventions against the still uncurbed forces of wind and wave...
...attempt to establish a human relation has succeeded so well that some directors or tutors even think the men spend more time with their students than they need to spend. The tutor who enjoys taking his ease in his inn naturally finds the students ready to spend much time in general chat. It is not so easy, when trying to cultivate a close relation, to cut interviews short. For instruction, the students are met singly or in small groups of those whose reading is much the same. The consultation is kept small enough to be of the nature...
...surrounds the efforts of the organization. Another potential factor in the lack of college success which the Dramatic Club has met might lie in the direction and training of the plays direction which has been, of late, merely capable. At any rate there is something vitally wrong, and an attempt to analyze that wrong is not out of place. Destructive criticism, while not offering any improvements, can at least awaken the Dramatic Club to the possibilities which are within its grasp. Whatever or whoever is to blame for the decline of this body, there is no doubt but that...
...present shift is to last only for the remainder of the week and a first and second eight will be chosen by Coach Brown next Monday. The rearrangement of the crews was made in an attempt to determine better the ability of various men, especially the strokes, which can be done much more easily by rowing them in different and evenly manned boats. Coach Brown did not say, but it is thought that Norton and Perkins will stroke the two crews during most of the week and that Watts will replace one of them when the squad is again given...
...wake of Sailor Bilge Smith (Charles King), finally towing him away from all those sweethearts in every port to her own suddenly acquired opulence. In addition to merry tunes, jolly chorus, salty high-spirits, the show has the rarest quality of the season-humor. The Thief. In her fourth attempt of the year, talented Alice Brady has hit upon a revival. Henri Bernstein's play was written two decades ago, in the era that demanded of the theatre a Big Scene with plenty of soft sweetness sandwiched in and around. The heroine steals from a wealthy, extravagant friend...