Word: attempt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Grim with her phantom cargo of 24 decayed sailors' bodies, unredeemed since last September, the S-51 freighted them to decent Christian burial in respectable cemeteries. Fortnight ago the Navy failed in a big attempt to raise the sunken casket because of heavy seas arising (TIME, July 5), swore it would succeed next time...
Next day, Senator Reed, (Dem.) of Missouri, stood up again: "The attempt to pass such a bill as this makes me sick all over-I hope to God that the Dawes' plan which he worked out for Europe is not so rotten economically as this...
...Louis Home-Trained Chorus (96) will attempt "grand opera" only once (Il Trovatore), will warble Iolanthe, The Red Mill, The Chocolate Soldier...
...seeing nothing, passed on. A young prelate who had been sitting in that aisle was at the moment being led off to confinement between two Vatican gendarmes. Hearing the Pope's step he had sprung upon a chair, burst into a sacrilegious harrangue. The clever gendarmes did not attempt to eject him. Instead, they attracted his attention by making funny faces until the Pope had gone by. Then they arrested him. The unknown blasphemer suffered, it is said, from a temporary attack of insanity...
...noted if not investigated by the average man. The book itself, of a profoundly speculative nature, will have to pass through numerous academic abridgments and crystallizations before it can touch the consciousness of the mass of Western mankind, of whose ideational processes it tells. In its own words, "The attempt is made for the first time to determine history in advance, to follow up the fate of the civilization of Western Europe in the stages through which it has yet to pass. . . . Its narrower theme is an analysis of the decline of the culture of the West; but the goal...