Word: attempt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Premier Painlevé's "new" Foreign Minister was observed to be identical with that which had been "erased" a few hours before. It was Aristide Briand. Seven times M. Briand has been Premier of France. His famed War Cabinet contained every living former Premier.* Since his ill-starred attempt to gain "security" for France at Cannes, in 1922, he has steadily built up that ideal into the concrete embodiment which it achieved at Locarno (TIME, Oct. 2 et seq.). Last week, as Acting President of the Council of the League of Nations, he was able to impose peace...
...vibration of traffic in Manhattan, even at dead of night, is sufficient to disturb so delicate an instrument. The test of Einstein's theory will be made "somewhere in Illinois." Thereafter, Prof. Hartsough will enlarge his scales and attempt to weigh molecules and atoms; and will consider commercial offers from people eager to try his instruments (he has made three) in locating oil and minerals...
LIFE BEGINS TOMORROW-Guide de Verona (Translated by Isabel Grazebrook) - Button $2.00). The emotional and stylistic tumult of this book will quite dismay the normal reader. It is an attempt to plumb terrific abysses, to scale sheer pinnacles of human nature; and the author, dizzied by exertion, indulges a hot Latin temperament to inartistic excess. With strong physiologic emphasis, the story is told of a medical genius who attends his best friend, an engineering genius. He and the friend's wife are overpowered by love for each other, she becoming enceinte. Death of the husband will mean life...
...clock this afternoon, the University soccer team will take on Pennsylvania in the second Intercollegiate league game of the season. At the same time the 1929 aggregation will attempt to down their rivals from Sprinfield College for their first...
Hence the convention that will meet at Princeton early in December is a note-worthy sign of this reawakening. Its avowed aims are to crystallize student opinion on the World Court and to attempt some kind of permanent organization among college students for the study of foreign affairs. Any influence, of course, which college students can bring to bear on the national government in favor of the World Court is desirable in itself, as also is the type of organization, which is planned. Yet, even if the Princeton convention accomplishes nothing in the way of concrete results, it will still...