Word: attempt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nicholas & Cyril. Though the Grand Duke Alexander's words of last week were significant and prompt to the minute, His Imperial Highness naturally did not attempt to sketch the full background of the feuds between Nicholas and Cyril, which Death seemed about to end last week...
Every "reorganization" intelligent was M.P. knew that "merger" or this a move to threaten British motor makers; but simply an attempt by Mr. Ford to enhance the appeal of his "Made in England" motor cars by admitting insular Britons to a share in Ford profits. None the less petulant M.P.'s raised a rumpus...
...vain attempt to recover, Tilton's scoring combination, composed of Wayne and Butler, rang up five goals in the third quarter. Harvard was hardly put on the defensive, when Holland, Harvard's promising forward, dribbled the ball down to the other end of the floor, where it remained, with a few exceptions, through the rest of the game...
There is a further appeal to the intangible in the clause stating the desired "emphasis on character and fitness, and the promise of the greatest usefulness in the future as a result of a Harvard education." There is no attempt made at definition of this "usefulness." There are many who think of education not as a tool to enable them to be useful. To men who prize a Harvard education, or any education, not for its value to something to be determined later, but for the opportunity which it offers for individual growth free of curbing restraint, the phrase will...
Caught in the Fog (talkie) is an uneasy and mildly sarcastic attempt to parody Crook Cinema which, in various disguises, has constituted nearly half of the recent output of Hollywood. Lots of crooks, including May McAvoy, a lady crook, sometimes dumb, sometimes stabbing into speech, come through Florida fog to a deserted houseboat on which the mother of a millionaire's son has left a pearl necklace worth $200,000 in cinema money. Boob detectives supply most of the comedy and Conrad Nagel's voice the best vocal sequences of a gentle melodrama which is parody only...