Word: attempt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...attempt was made to deal at once with the Mosul question (TIME, Nov. 30, et ante) and to make a final settlement of the Greco-Bulgar dispute (TIME, Dec. 14 et ante). Both the Turks and the Greeks, however, strongly resisted the adjudication of these matters which the Council seemed disposed to give; and it was decided that further investigations should be pursued before the Council hands down its ultimate decisions. Definite action was taken on only one matter...
...decided to convoke a Special Disarmament Committee at Geneva on Feb. 15, 1926, which shall attempt to clear the way for an ultimate International Disarmament Conference or Conferences under the auspices of the League of Nations...
...large university there is a tendency for the faculty to pursue a line never quite, tangent to undergraduate interest. Hence, the evident appreciation of Professor Copeland's attempt to touch the undergraduate sphere, in the words of Dean Briggs, "to store the memory, to expand the mind, to soften the prejudices, to sharpen the insight, and to strengthen the characters of human beings...
...nearly all the religious and political groups* in the country except the rebellious Druses. It was estimated that before nightfall 10,000 people had passed through his office, and many Syrian chieftains pledged him their support. The streets of Beirut were decorated in his honor and a very evident attempt was made to stage a "popular welcome" which would wipe out memories of the unpopular and ruthless French Military High Commander, General Maurice Sarrail, recently recalled (TIME...
...wretched mendicant, and betook himself with five disciples to a gorge in the Vindhya Mountains, where he gave himself up to fasting and terrible penances. His fame spread "like the sound of a great bell hung in the canopy of the skies." One day he decided that to attempt to reach God through the emptiness of his belly was preposterous. He ate a healthy meal; refused to continue his morti- fications. His disciples left him. For a long while he wandered, alone and gloom-benighted, beleaguering in the darkness of his mind the fortress of eternal knowledge...