Word: attempt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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These letters are the raw material," according to F.C. Ayres, executive secretary of the society, "from which Hamilton wrote his report on manufactures, which gave the first impetus to the protective tariff in this country and was the first attempt to survey the industrial resources of the United States. The book should be of interest to those who are turning to the past to help in solving present day economic conditions...
Scouting the contention that Germans might be permitted to maintain a "cultural influence" in the German-speaking areas of Alsace-Lorraine, he rapped: "We do not attempt to intervene in Belgium, Switzerland or Canada, on the pretense of protecting the French language or traditions in those countries. And we shall not permit foreign influence to glide into the administration of our own domestic affairs...
...Irving Strouse. They said: "Certain flowers have a brief but repetitive bloom; likewise a fashion, a joke, a publicity stunt. Press-agent Strouse was clever in that he accurately gauged the precise degree of reportorial gullibility; newshawks are perhaps to be excused for supposing that no one would dare attempt so blatant a hoax in the hope of practicing a deception. Press-agent Strouse indubitably won the game and the game was worth the candy." Smiling slyly, Press-agent Strouse despatched to the newsheets an advertisement for which he would have to pay in cash, an advertisement which...
...printed book, plain or decorated, depends on a number of considerations, of which the design of the type is perhaps the most important. It is no exaggeration to say that in no printed book between the closing years of the fifteenth century and those of the nineteenth was any attempt made to obtain them...
Anticipating anxiety in the minds of small town luncheon club members Montgomery Ward's president, George B. Everett, explained: "No attempt is made (in the 50 Montgomery Ward stores already operating) to overshadow the local merchants. Our experience has been that wherever we have located, local merchants have benefited...