Word: attempt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...various states of the German Republic. Eventually they forced him to allow another member of his party, Herr Kuelz, to receive the Interior portfolio, which Herr Koch had formerly demanded as his personal "plum" for supporting Dr. Luther. It was Herr Koch who failed in the most promising recent attempt at a "Big Coalition" (TIME...
Against moneyed power, the individual crusader for uncontrolled news can have little hope of success. Either he can enter on a lone attempt to reform the press, or, he can content himself with the laissez faire reflection that since interests are rich enough to control a paper, all sides are represented in the daily orgy of propaganda...
Where the difficulties of the freshman are more profoundly realized, there will be found also initiatory courses, comprehensive in title and often sadly superficial. Their captions picture the grand attempt to inspire an interest in the essentials of current life, a cultural background, and original thinking. "Social and Economic Institutions" at Amherst, "Introduction to Contemporary Civilization" and "An Introduction to Reflective Thinking" at Columbia, Dartmouth's courses in "Evolution" and "Problems of Citizenship", and Princeton's "History, Politics and Economics', all reflect the difficulty of making the horse drink...
...dirty, littered cage! An unkempt bruted labor through it. Mr. Dreiser has declined to improve his knowledge of the English language, and while he is a painstaking reporter, he is a very indifferent craftsman. For him it is more honest to ramble on for 840 pages than to attempt compression and readable sentences. Genius gleams fitfully through the welter. Mr. Dreiser observes life broadly, with great detachment and a cumbersome irony not unlike Hardy's. He is at times mystical, but more often merely confused...
...Haven, Conn, January 24--Although the 1929 Yale oarsmen are taking advantage of the open water and row on the Housatonic, the University crew will make no attempt to follow them, as reported recently, but will keep up work in the tanks in the University Gymnasium until a permanent break in the ice comes, it was announced here today...