Word: attempt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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General Summerall's testimony was in rebuttal to that given by defense witnesses that the lives of flyers had been endangered by his orders: "No air officer or soldier has ever been hurt in an attempt to carry out my orders. On the contrary, I have restrained them from carrying out missions which I believed unnecessarily hazardous...
...crumbling of the eternal Sphinx is a catastrophe of would-wide concern. Should the attempt of the Egyptian government to repair the monster prove unavailing, the superiority complex of man must suffer. He will be forced to adroit that an alliance of vagrant winds and inanimate sand has defeated...
...Deputies to face the situation, no matter by whom it may be presented. Rumor was busy with talk of a general election. Le Matin called upon "the leaders of the nation" to organize "a committee of public salvation" with the slogan, "Save France, or die in the attempt...
...face of an assassin, true that his style of fighting is, to say the least, ungracious, but he owns two qualities that have carried him far-great strength, great courage. As he lolled under the fierce moon-fire of the ring-lights, pitifully twisting his enormous body in an attempt to rise, it was clear that his strength was no longer at his disposal. And his courage? "... Nine" counted the referee. Berlenbach lurched to his feet. Delaney flicked him with a sharp left. Berlenbach came plunging in. Again Delaney's left, again his proficient right. Berlenbach came plunging...
Thomas N. Dysart, President of the Association, scored the "blue-sky" laws, which attempt to save the ignorant stock buyer from the clutches of unscrupulous dealers. He said that in actual practice these laws, by complicating sales, hamper the flotation of high-grade stocks...