Word: attempt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...before attractions less elevating than lectures will be alienating the interests of his followers and even--whisper it softly--of the Vagabond himself. Such a demonstration of the appalling brevity of life has had him hurrying back and forth along the way-stations of his academic route in an attempt to make use of every available opportunity before the Reading Period brings its starvation rations. Today he will stop off at Sever 11 at 11 o'clock to hear Dr. Maynadier discuss Sir Walter Seott: and in the afternoon his scientific curiosity will be appeased in part by a visit...
...country situated in Boston, and with the growth of the Fogg Art Museum, but in the field of contemporary work the student must travel to New York in order to see any number of works large enough to be representative of current artistic endeavor. Monthly exhibitions which will attempt at least to touch on every field of contemporary work should in a large part fill this need...
Following the plan initiated last year, the annual production of the Pi Eta Club will take the form of a semi-public presentation with the first night restricted to club members, and the second open to relatives and friends of the club members. The club will make no attempt to put the show on the road, confining its presentation to the two performances in its own theatre...
These concerts, which will be open to Union Members only, and which will be formal, constitute an attempt of the management to enlarge the system of short Sunday evening programs formerly in vogue, which have drawn an audience varying from 200 to 500. It is hoped that this series of six will be even more popular...
...using the maxim that the congai is more pleasant than the sword. Congai means something just above a prostitute, one is led to believe, a native "wife" taken by a French colonist for a period of time subject to change without notice. Every bellylaugh in the play is an attempt to explain these meanings; but, of course, grown-up children like to be told all about such things, while off-stage instruments go thumpety-thumpety-thump (atmosphere...