Word: attempt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most akin to the universal. Here is departing not one whit from Aristotelian precepts. The Executive Editor of Liberty might read Stark Young's article. It may be more easily obtained on Park Avenue than the Poetics. At all events, as the editor of a paper which is supposedly attempting to place some semblance of truth before the eyes of its probably sanguine readers, he should make some attempt to think things out, to get beyond the mere surface reality. Whether a man drinks or a girl smokes-may be good news stuff, especially if either is of the privileged...
...royal car, antiquated, was not supplied with a dynamo to charge the battery, as are all modern railroad cars. The trainmen, louts, did not attempt to rig up emergency lights connected to the batteries of other cars on the train...
...gaining ground alike by running plays and by the forward pass, but woefully lacking in a scoring punch. The play was in Exeter's territory most of the time, but half a dozen excellent scoring chances were tossed away; Devens missed three field goals by narrow margins, and one attempt by Wetmore was blocked...
...Several hundred steers, direct from the fields, would be driven into the Square each day by a few herdsmen. There they would promptly start milling around to the danger of all citizens nearby. For the better part of an hour, their custodians would yell and crack whips in an attempt to straighten out the cavalcade and herd it on to the Brighton road...
...keystone, is said to be strong, and capable of making considerable trouble for any opposing line. Just how true this statement and others, conflicting and vague, as to the real worth of this year's Nassau eleven, will be answered tomorrow. Meanwhile, it would be folly to attempt more than the merest guess at the result...