Word: attempt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Significance. Le Matin and the Herald Tribune printed flat denials of their expose by officials of the British Foreign Office, side by side with the expose itself. The question of real significance is not whether the charges are true .or false, but whether any League member state will attempt to secure denunciation of the Treaty of Tirana when it is deposited with the League of Nations. If that point is raised, and if Great Britain stands behind Italy in quashing denunciation, the drift of events will be sufficiently clear...
Today's game will be the initial one of the season for the Freshman sextet, and begins their attempt to continue the undefeated records of three preceding undefeated records of three preceding first year teams...
...Maitresse de Roi" is nothing if not graphic. There is great beauty in its stage designing, a meticulous eye for details, and more than an attempt at recalling the best of French art in the little scenes within scenes in which the Comedie Francaise revels. The play is a show-piece. It has the further advantage for foreign consumption that it is readily understood. The enunciation of the players is nicely turned to aid foreign ears. But it is not necessary to depend upon the actors' speech. There is the program to fall back upon; and the very situations themselves...
...process of raising their Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Gifts to the University. Under the present plan, the only appeal to the Graduate School alumni is made through the general literature sent out by the Council and through notices and articles in the Bulletin. This far there has been no attempt to solicit funds from those men through agents appointed for the purpose...
...This attempt to censor the morals of our cows and horses," announced Mr. Gallivan last week, "is surely the ultimate in Prohibition enforcement...