Word: attempt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University polo trio will journey to Providence today for a match with the 103rd Field Artillery mallet men in the Rhode Island armory tonight. The 1929 riders will attempt to break into the win column at the same time, when they clash with the 110th Cavalry Officers at the Commonwealth Armory...
...move for a national education department has experienced opposition from an unexpected source. Professor Otis of City College criticises the project as a disguised attempt to militarize schools and colleges. And in a talk to foreign students at Columbia University the New York educator sounds the historic cry of states rights...
...February, Rowe and Greenlees were astonished to find in the rock surface a rectangular bed of plaster of paris. There seemed to have been little attempt at concealment because with the mud and small pieces of rock conglomerate brushed off the plaster was instantly recognizable. The rectangular shape seemed definitely to show that a stairway was cut into the rock and had been filled up to the surface with plaster The tomb of Tutankhamen in the Valley of the Kings had just such an entrance but it was filled only with debris. At Thebes, however, there was not so great...
Watters in the Haughton 600 yards will attempt to gain a leg the trophy recently presented in memory of P. D. Haughton '99. He will have the same opposition which Haggerty ran up against Saturday night over the same distance. Leness of M. I. T. who beat Haggerty, has twice trailed Watters in outdoor meets in years past...
Finally, a sensation was created when the notorious ultra-reactionary militarist, Captain Ehrhardt, was observed to be strolling about the lobbies of the Reichstag and conferring privately with the leaders of the Voelkische, the extreme-Right Ludendorff faction. Captain Ehrhardt not only led the famed Kapp Putsch, which attempted to overthrow the German Republic in March, 1920, but was so implicated in the assassination of the Ministers Erzberger and Rathenau that he was forced to flee from Germany until the passing of last year's amnesty law. Pressmen eagerly touted his appearance as a sign that his old adherents...