Word: attempt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...usual emphasis placed on the private life of the once great men. Mr. Thaddeus adds a certain vindictiveness that is not to be found in most authors. That the attempt to blacken the name of Rome is more or less intentional is shown clearly by the preface, and throughout the work there is a use of invective that would have shamed even Cicero in his bitterest mood...
...included an excellent and entertaining glossary devoted to certain unfamiliar aspects of Greek and Roman ethies. The present version is highly incomplete, so much so as to make little or no sense in placers, and even the most inoffensive passages have suffered clumsy and injudicious pruning. And, since an attempt to purify Petronius is much the same as preparing an edition of Fanny Hill for high school use, this version is at best, a sad, sad, business...
...feet, was the highest mountain in the world, Captain Noel tells of the disguised surveyors who spent years in the monasteries of old Nepal and Tibet gathering bit by bit accurate information as to the exact surroundings of the "Goddess Mother of the World". In 1914 Noel made an attempt to see the mountain but his disguise failed and he was stopped by the Tibetan soldiers, over forty miles from his goal...
...just the week for a meeting of the National Crime Commission in Washington, D. C. What looked very much like a grand scale attempt at jury-wangling was fresh on the docket, in the devious history of a successful and therefore widely admired oilman and a onetime Cabinet member (see CORRUPTION...
Coach Jack Kershaw is using as many Sophomores and Juniors as possible in an attempt to build up material for next year's team...