Word: attempt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...waterway tooth and nail, because they alleged it would lower the level of the lakes. They also charged that the survey of the All-American route was a waste of money because the project was impracticable. Another group opposed the Cape Cod Canal purchase, charging that it. was an attempt to unload an unprofitable* private enterprise on the Government...
...parents of Joe de Ganahl '25, who was with the Byrd expedition to the North Pole this spring, have just received a cablegram from Commander Byrd congratulating them on the put which Ganahl played in the successful attempt to fly over the Pole. The cablegram, which was sent declining the offer of Mr. and Mrs. Ganahl to Commander Byrd to land at their decks on the return to England, stated--"Your son was splendid throughout the expedition, Congratulations...
Even admitting that more is known about the Great War than any other war, so close have the writers been to the scenes which they attempt to describe, that the endeavors to correlate this information have resembled indigestion rather than perfect assimilation. Mr. Dickinson, however, seems to have that mathematical turn of mind which can weigh and balance facts in their true perspective...
...which is responsible for the writings of Edith Wharton. In her recent book of critical essays. "The Writing of Fiction," in describing the work of William James, Mrs. Wharton calls him "almost the only novelist who has formulated his ideas about his art." The book itself is a successful attempt to place herself in the illustrious company of James. She has shown that the effects which she has hitherto produced in such a work as "Ethan Frome" were no result of chance. Genius was undeniably operative there, but it was a literary genius which reached its fulfillment on the wings...
...Reverend John Harvard, whose bequest in 1638 of his library and half his estate won him, the posthumous Loner of godfather to the infant school a nonconformist and an emigrant from the intolerance of the homeland. Battles there were, to be sure, stern doctrinary struggles such as the attempt under the presidency of the Reveread Increase Mather to bind down the college with the dour tenets of Calvinism. But liberalism always triumphed somehow, and lived to flourish in the Harvard of today...