Word: attempt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...failure of the present order is apparent; the need of a remedy no less so. The attempt of one editor to compile the Register single-handed in his spare time is an absurdity the only logical result of which is its present appearance on January 8. Either an editor who can devote his full time to the work, or a board of several members is necessary. Nor is the publication for profit of a volume whose circulation seldom exceeds one thousand an easy undertaking. Both difficulties suggest the advantages of the earlier non-professional system...
...which might develop about the Locarno Treaties or some similar agreement. . . . In accepting the decision of the League Council, we are simply continuing our present regime for 25 years or until Irak enters the League, which may well take place before that time. . . . In any case, if Turkey should attempt to seize the Mosul region of Irak, she would have to reckon not alone with England but with the League, whose decision she would thus have flouted. . . . The British taxpayer does not stand upon the brink of an enterprise likely to lead to great expense...
...Their subjects, on the other hand, will not attempt to escape their commands when they recognize in them the image and authority of Christ, God and man. Besides, with the growth of the Kingdom of Christ men become more aware of the brotherhood which unites them and this awareness decreases the danger of conflicts...
...plain truth is that beer is just an ordinary beverage. You cannot make it criminal if you try. The attempt is silly. Common sense revolts at it. Some people like beer and some don't. Some people find that it agrees with them and others do not. . . . The attempt to make the consumption of beer criminal is folly and futile...
...Herr President first made a courteous gesture toward the Centrists by requesting their leader, Herr Fehrenbach, to attempt to form a cabinet. No one expected that Herr Fehrenbach would be successful. The votes at his party's command are too few to form the nucleus of a coalition. A day or two later he announced that for him the task was an impossibility...