Word: attempt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...inflated with inflammable hydrogen instead of inert helium, she might have blown up. And anyway, it is not proper to shoot at the U. S. Navy's one and only big dirigible. Carpenter Merton Hankins, the lilliputian gunner, was arrested. Last week he was tried for assault with attempt to kill...
...time trials held yesterday evening, both crews were granted a lay-off today and went for a four-hour cruise on the Sound in J. Pierpont Morgan's palatial steam yacht, "Corsair". Present plans here in the Crimson training quarters call for two time trials this week in an attempt to cut down on the 21 minute 27 second pace set yesterday over the four mile course...
...subjects represented are the symbols of Death and Victory in the left panel and the coming of the Americans to Europe on the right. Happily, Mr. Sargent made no attempt at historical rendering and treated his scheme broadly from the decorative point of view. In the panel of the Coming of the Americans he has filled the space with a mighty column of American youths in uniform, slashing the composition boldly from right to left in the lower right hand side are three figures symbolic of France. Belgium, and England France in the foreground, wearing the Phrygian cap, carries...
...mere demagoguery. To say that class leadership is wrong is nonsense. Already our social system is a resultant of classes clashing as classes. Banking as a class, labor as a class, politicians as a class, lawyers as a class, all are bent on control. Why not make an attempt to wake up the inter and irresponsible class of college men, try to make them a bit self-conscious, proud of what differentiates them from the crowd, proud to make use of than power, the power of breeding, brains, training, opportunities. Professor Rogers, cited by Associated Press...
Most obvious of the indications of the lack of sympathy between this author and the modern world is his vocabulary. It includes the frequent use of archaisms and unusual words such as "rathe," "sonant," "unimpasted," which are not found in the average abridged dictionary. The attempt to recover the idiom of another age so deliberate that the writer cannot have realized the many-times repeated truth that the Elizabethtn poets were not works with "thees" and "dosts" and "wilts." Among their contemporaries the words were in good and familiar usage, and a writer three hundred years later is not justified...