Word: attempt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Where ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise." Therefore, we shall not attempt to prove to you that gamblers, saloonkeepers, dance hall girls and honkey-tonks do not exist in Douglas or in Agua Prieta, the Mexican city immediately across the Border...
...European intellectuals as well as from "old school" Americans have come their expressions of fear. But while these have beaten the air of a careless world with the fury of their misgivings, the beast has kept slowly and methodically growing. And now the time has come when man must attempt to master the civilization he has created, for it is not to be thought that he will meekly submit to the forces that would crush him, once the danger is evident...
...peace--not of war, for the passions of the struggle have had six years to cool. These diplomats see peace as an economic necessity, and they are willing to sacrifice something for it. Evidently, the world is at last worried about its eternal warring, so worried as to attempt the novel in preventing war. Therefore, the person who cherishes any delight in the results of the gathering beside the waters of Lake Maggiore is not insanely sanguine. For a few moments, at least, one really dares to hope...
Eight lettermen from last year's undefeated team are slated to face the Down Easters today. Barring injuries, these men will also appear on Soldiers Field in Dartmouth's attempt for three straight wins over the Crimson...
Indeed, it is this peril of the ill found pen which alarms F. P. A. in his "Conning Tower". Disturbed by the statement from Mayor Hylan that he is to ornament his already colored career with an attempt at writing, the genial "colyumist" warns the writing profession to stand by its guns--or pens. No writer can at will become a Walter Johnson or a Paderewski or a Chaliapin; why should the leaders in every profession, great or small, attempt to meet the muses on equal terms? The answer is apparent. One has but to read the published prattle...