Word: attempt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...your issue of August 20 you relate the failure of an attempt at suicide, the attempter failing to drown because he wore a "cork...
...great racqueteers have alienated public favor when it might have done them the most good. One was Vincent Richards, onetime junior singles champion, onetime Davis Cup defender, whose attempt to justify his turning professional brought forth lame excuses, and turned away many who otherwise might have given him their support. The other was William Tatem Tilden II, who last week was found guilty of breaking the player-writer rule of the U. S. L. T. A. and punished by indefinite banishment from amateur tennis...
...said last week, at Wausau, Wis. (See National Affairs): "We cherish no sentiment of aggression. . . . But . . . for the Government [of the U.S.] to disregard the science of national defense would expose it to the contempt of its citizens at home and of the world abroad. It would be an attempt to evade bearing our share of the burdens of civilization...
...Author. A lady at the glittering Japanese court of the 11th Century, Murasaki Shikibu was a shrewd observer of life in the capital. Up to her time fiction had taken the form of short fairy tales and allegories; her 4,000-page novel was a distinct innovation, the first attempt at realism. Some say she was called Murasaki after the heroine of her famous tale; others (among them Amy Lowell) say that the Mikado whose favorite she was wrote her a poem: "When the purple grass (Murasaki) is in full color one can scarcely perceive the other plants...
Futile had been the attempt to cure the young mute by the sudden changes of air pressure incident to so wild an airplane ride. Such cures have occasionally resulted when deafness or vocal paralysis was functional. But not when either was organic, as in this case. Julius Shaefer was mute from a lesion in his brain. Yet, his mother, against the objection of her Dr. Samuel C. Reiss, had put her child through the ordeal, stubbornly faithful that science could cure...