Word: attempt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other hand it cannot be questioned that the present world situation makes an appeal to Christian students for the furtherance of the aims of the S. F. F. entirely justified. I feel sure that there are many in Harvard University who will lend their support to this attempt to foster "some sort of intelligent cooperation and understanding" among the students of the world on this basis...
...shall be grateful if you will allow space in the columns of The Crimson for this attempt to clear up what I conceive to be a slight misunderstanding of our purposes. Yours sincerely, A. Ambrose Reeves, General Theological Seminary, New York City
...speedy schoolmaster will attempt to set a new world's record on the Stadium track, which is probably the best in the country. He will designate the distance which he will run at a later date...
Every true vagabond feels a distinct urge toward the tropics. To sit before a typewriter and attempt to transcribe that urge is to essay the impossible. But nearly all residents of the more temperate zones have their dreams and visions of sunshine and palm-trees and tinkly temple-bells. From Kipling, Jack London, Stevenson and Conrad, we have gleaned bits of tropic lore, and still more recently the moving picture has brought to our very eyes the delights and delusions of life in perpetual summer. A very popular, successful, and excellent play of the last two years showed the dire...
...finished. Then there are 109 more pages. The novel-that is to say-consists of interpolations: the fleeting memories and thoughts of Haeckla. To put it another way the cover blurb quotes Miss Chilton as saying that this is "a melodrama of the intellect." For an embryo novelist to attempt a plan so diffuse and snatchy is more than bold. To pull it off without creating boredom would have been magnificent- but the book bores. When all is said and done, Haeckla and Dennis were torturing their souls about nothing-and only a great novelist can fling the mantle...