Word: attempt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...attempt has been made to definitely draw up the schedule of the winter tournament of the Indoor Polo League...
...possibility of reviving enthusiasm by appeal to the desire for novelty in music has been rather completely neglected at Harvard until the regime of Mr. Slonimsky. Apparently the example of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, with its successful treatment of new selections has inspired the conductor of the Pierian to attempt a similar step...
...invite him to preside or speak at any of the big meetings held by Mr. Hughes in California. These politicians used Mr. Hughes in an effort to belittle Governor Johnson and to make it appear that Governor Johnson was not recognized as a republican. In other words, in an attempt to defeat Johnson, these scheming men defeated the misguided Mr. Hughes...
...accusing me of doing with Lincoln as Rupert Hughes did to Washington, he not only is far from the truth, but he is as ridiculous as one hastening to protect the Washington monument from being assaulted with a fly-swatter. If he can read into that speech an anarchistic attempt to destroy or bring under contempt an institution in our history and language, he has a surprisingly tabloid mind for one who would seem to be painfully Bostonian...
Funds are now being collected by the Commission, and research and experiment will begin shortly at the Medical School and various Boston Hospitals in an attempt to stamp out a disease which now has 390,000 victims in the United States...