Word: attempt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...addition to the actual work of caring for injured athletes, an attempt was made to investigate the nature of various injuries which heretofore have been obscure. At the present time, very interesting information and gratifying results, as far as treatment is concerned have been obtained regarding sprained ankles. During the fall and winter, a considerable investigation of the sugar content of the blood before and after competition was done. In all, about 500 blood analyses were made. At the same time, an investigation along X-ray lines of the hearts of track men was started but has not yet been...
...seriously doubt the learning of university faculties. But when professors attempt to apply their learning to vital matters, Mr. Babbitt becomes nervous and his newspaper howls. So it was last week. A large part of the faculty of Princeton University followed a large part of the faculty of Columbia University in advocating reconsideration of the Allied debts to the U. S. in a more altruistic light. President John Grier Hibben and 115 professors signed the Princeton petition. The Chicago Tribune was howl-leader. In an editorial headed "Piffle Patriots at Princeton" it said: "The reasoning of the Columbia professors...
Radio Hypnosis is the latest attempt of man through space. Commenting on the recent experiment in hypnosis by radio broadcast conducted in Springfield and Boston by WBZ, Dr. H. A. Murray, of the Psychology department, has written the following article for the CRIMSON...
...opinion of Alice Brady, star of "Lady Alone", plays dealing with Lesbianism and Homosexuality or similar distasteful subjects have no place on the American Stage. They treat of matters not only unpleasant in themselves, but made considerably more so by the crude manner in which the playwrights who attempt this type of sensationalism handle them. In addition to which, Miss Brady feels that the topics are in most cases new to the audiences and do anything but stimulate their minds in the proper direction...
...audiences, without turning in that direction," added Miss Brady, "There are far better things to put before an audience than these subjects, and because of their nature they must be handled ever so delicately, a thing which is not within the reach of most of the dramatists who would attempt such subjects. A play such as "The Captive" is done with the utmost delicacy and as such is really a fine play, but it is easily the exception...