Word: attempt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Defensive work again featured yesterday's practice for the University eleven. In a scrimmage lasting about half an hour, the Seconds were allowed to retain the ball almost all the time. Only in one instance did the Crimson team attempt an offense, and this resulted in a quick march for a touchdown...
...clergyman's address. But to anyone who has a sincere interest either in the church or in religion it is but one more bugle call in the crazed crusade of notoriety seekers who think the troubles of the church good press agent material. For some time now the attempt on the part of certain New York preachers to fill their churches and to cover themselves with glory, has made of religion the farce which many people delight in thinking it. Truly great preachers like Dr. Fosdick whose stand has been unique in its clarity and sincerity of purpose, though they...
...first time this fall, Coaches Mitchell and Davidson sent their teams through a full nine-inning game. No attempt was made to pick a first and second team, the squad being divided with a view to producing two evenly-matched nines...
...leetle hour, I mek you 'appy," he promises his old friend,--to attempt to reproduce Alan Mowbray's quaint dialect with its compound of American, a plausible Spanish accent, and the twang of Oxford English. There is the mortgage. Pancho robs a bank and pays it. One or two individuals insist in getting in the way. Pancho's confrere, Pedre, points firearms at them. There is the offensive and superfluous husband. Pancho shoots him personally. "There! What you say, my frien'?" Are you not 'appy...
...some of his previous opinions. Regarded in this light, the main issue of the debate may be stated as follows: shall scientists and teachers be permitted to search for the truth and to teach it in so far as they know it to be the truth, or shall "he attempt to find and to spread the truth, be frustrated by the narrow unwillingness fairly to examine evidence which might tend to nullify traditional beliefs? Samuel C. Sander...