Word: attempt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wedding party did not attempt to eat, but waited for luncheon until they returned to the Mellon apartment, which takes up a whole floor in a huge apartment building on Massachusetts Ave. Even this extraordinary home was overtaxed by the wedding, and the Secretary was obliged to rent an ordinary apartment below his own huge one in which to accommodate wedding guests and wedding presents...
Rumors circulated the thought that M. Briand would attempt to draw support from this unstable "majority of enemies" in an effort to gain at least temporary backing for his "save the franc" program. During this hectic week, Premier Briand found time to deny once more that he is engaged to be married?after 64 years of bachelorhood. He told reporters of three young Manhattan women who recently sent him a joint proposal?he to choose from their inclosed photographs which he preferred to wed. "I deemed their letter a most charming and delicate attention," said M. Briand, "yet I could...
...Resolved, that the E. I. N. A. encourage the Federation in any attempt it may make to establish an international student news service...
...producing what is known as college spirit, a spirit which according to the advocates of rallies would not exist as it should, except for the rallies, there is no logical place for them in university life. If college spirit can be made to exist only through such means, no attempt should be made to foster it. Affection for and loyalty to one's university, be it in scholarship or athletics, which does not come naturally cannot be aggravated in any healthy way by rallies...
...Cumbrous, expensive, dilatory judicial administration and a substantive law, inadequate to the new conditions of manufacturing and marketing and industrial organization strain the machinery of legislation and of administration, since they cause us to turn from the judicial department in matters that ought to be dealt with judicially, and attempt vainly to do the work of courts by legislation or by administration...