Word: attempt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...farmer claims to be poor.* He insists he can't pay his old debts, much less contract fresh ones for such new-fangled electrical equipment. So in an attempt to elevate his economic standing and put electric milkers, pigpen warmers and auto- matic cornhuskers within his reach, the Committees on Agriculture of the House and Senate last week began hearings on legislation for his relief...
...radio colloquium will be held this afternoon at 4.30 o'clock in the Cruft Laboratory. J. P. Hervey will speak on the subject. "An Attempt to Solve the Design Problem of Intermediate Frequency Amplifiers". Tea will be served in the lecture room at 4.15 o'clock, and everyone interested is invited...
...gave politicians a lot to think about by his trip to the coal fields and later by declaring at a banquet attended by foremost British industrialists that unless they improve their sales methods the Empire's trade will suffer (TIME, March 4). Should he openly attempt, however, to champion any party he would be doing violence to that most cherished of British fetishes−the idea that the Throne is above politics. Thus any move by Edward of Wales to use his power, which if he seemed to use it would be power no longer, must be accomplished with...
...attempt to put the commercial blood brokers out of business, the New York Academy of Medicine, County Medical Society and Health Department recently gave their joint blessing to an Association for the Transfusion of Blood in Aid of Suffering. This organization is semi-commercial, quasi eleemosynary. It charges the standard $50 a pint for blood, gives its selected sellers $45, keeps $5 for commission. It is under reliable medical control...
...lighting in the lecture rooms is so bad when the lamps are dimmed for slide projection that a positive strain on the eyes results from an hour's attempt at taking notes in the gloom...