Word: attempt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Argent and Vert" is another failure. It suggests an attempt to amuse the assembled company despite toothache or gout. Its conclusion loses what force it may have had in the original in antidiluvian times, largely because the translator seems incapable of excluding any words seeking admittance and employment after the gates should close...
...present hubbub, instigated at the College of the City of New York at the editor of "Campus", the college paper, in an attempt to sound undergraduate opinion on the presence in the curriculum of the course in military science, culminates today and tomorrow in a ballot of the college by the Student Council. In this way the advocates of the abolition of this course hope to present sufficient undergraduate sentiment opposing its continuance to convince the faculty that it should be removed...
...Italian Press scored and stigmatized the plot almost without regard to party lines. Said II Tribuno, usually markedly antiFascist: The attempt rouses not only among the Fascisti but among all Italians the greatest indignation. Whatever party one may belong to, whatever reasons one may have to oppose the present Government, one must admit Mussolini is something more than a political symbol...
...Armistice Day Speech, delivered by Premier Mussolini before details of the plot were allowed to leak out, was in part as follows: "Italy's victory over the Central Empires gave us our present sacred inviolable boundaries. Woe unto anyone who would attempt to violate them!....I believe we are confronted with a long period of peace . . . not with the possibility of peace for centuries. . . . The Italian people must not rest on their laurels . . . must be taught how sublime it is to sacrifice one's self for one's country...
Williams held Amherst to a surprisingly low score, on the basis of the forecast analysis, and the three complete upsets take some of the glory from the accurate Dartmouth-Chicago prognostication. Nothing, however, can dim the triumph of Joe Forecast's first attempt to guess a Harvard score. Harvard won, and Joe has saved his far-flung fame, his reputation, and his shirt...