Word: attempt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chinese first heard of Wang when he attempted unsuccessfully to assassinate the Manchu Prince Regent in 1907, and barely escaped abroad with his own life. That attempt stamps Wang as a democrat and a patriot in Chinese eyes...
Accident or Plot? One group of spokesmen for Henry Ford announced that he regards the crash merely as an accident caused by a drunken driver or a roadhog. The other spokesmen said that Mr. Ford believes a deliberate attempt was made to kill him. The details of the crash, the secrecy in which it was kept for three days, the elaborate precautions in bringing Mr. Ford home from the hospital (two ambulances, two stretchers), the heavily increased guard about the Ford home?all tend to confirm the plot theory, which Mr. Ford is said to have dropped...
...average rate of two per day and lashing them alongside for scientists to cut from the base of the whale brains the whale pituitary glands. After each operation, the carcass was set adrift, the small gland pitched into a barrel. When the Lansing returns, Dr. Max S. Dunn will attempt to analyze whale pituitaries into their constituent elements to discover what agency or force causes whale tissue to assume such prodigious proportions, perhaps what agency or force is the source of all animal structure and life. Possible "usefulness": a better understanding of how to produce mammoth food fish, poultry, circus...
...same day on which this race will be held, Edvin Wide, the Swedish runner, will attempt to break the world's two-mile record...
Besides his attempt to scale Mt. Tsar, Ostheimer expects to make observations regarding the divide fluctuations of Fortress Pass. The Great Divide, which is only 8,000 feet high in this region, causes a variation in the direction of the flow of the glacial streams which makes all the water at times flow toward the Arctic and at other times toward the Pacific. Since these streams serve to distinguish the boundary lines between Alberta and British Columbia, observations, regarding them are desired by the Canadian government. At one time, in fact, the shifting of the courses of these streams...