Word: attempt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Smacking down his fist the Premier concluded: "I will make no attempt to apportion the blame for the stubbornness and folly which have resulted in the continuance of this strike. ... I have laid before the House the steps which the government proposes to take whether a settlement between the miners and owners is reached...
What are armaments? The Preparatory Disarmament Commission found no answer (TIME, May 31). Its Military Committee began an attempt at definition (TIME, June 14) only to be confounded by the Latins, Netherlanders and Swedes, who presented lists of "armaments" which included such items as pigs, fogs, birth rates, ocean currents...
Ostensibly to call "upon the [British] archbishops now considering proposals for the prayer book revision to maintain the Protestant reformed religion, as by law established," really to attempt to throttle the yearnings of many Episcopalians towards Roman Catholicism, 8,000 representatives of the Anglican and Free Churches of England recently gathered in London. The Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of London did not attend. But Home Secretary Sir William Joynson-Hicks was there, presided, deprecated as usual all divergence from established customs, cried: "We have just passed through anxious times [the general strike; TIME, May 10 et seq.] . . . defeated...
Significance. Interest promptly centered upon whether the new regime would attempt to enact strong arm prohibition in place of the highly successful "Stockholm system" of liquor control inaugurated in 1916 by Dr. Ivan Bratt, which was extended throughout Sweden in 1919 as the "Bratt system...
...associates started a fund to give awards to employes who had distinguished themselves by "conspicuous public service." Last week the Vail Medals were given for 1925-five in all, three to women. And so the public heard how Mrs. Josephine L. August, night operator at Cassopolis, Mich., frustrated an attempt to rob the First National Bank; how Miss Ruby LaVerne Wilson, at Washington, Ark., tried to stop some bandits; why Emory Daniel Stine, lineman, waded into an icy stream at York, Pa.; what Repairer Everett C. Nelson did on top of a 45-foot pole near Niagara Falls. But most...