Word: attempt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Debate Council members will attempt to win the College its second forensic victory of the year tonight when they face a Middlebury due in Lowell Junior Common Room at 8:30 o'clock...
...Council will meet Monday evening in another attempt to frame a plan which will be acceptable to all parties...
...ridiculous, asinine, idiotic, and doesn't make sense." Gustin ignored Post editorials across the page. Post editorials ignored Gustin-except once, when a political advertisement quoted from a Gustin column. Then the Post once more warned readers that Gustin spoke only for Gustin. But the paper made no attempt to edit or censor Gustin's columns. Acknowledged Gustin: "A remarkable demonstration of broadmindedness...
...committee asked for the construction of a new fleet of highspeed dry cargo and tanker vessels. But it sensibly warned the U.S. against trying to hog world shipping. Said the committee: "Many maritime nations are far more dependent [for income] on shipping than is the United States. . . . Any attempt on the part of the United States to monopolize a large part of world shipping . . . could constitute a threat to world peace," by further impoverishing some nations and drying up world trade...
After stalling and spluttering their way to a 7-all halftime deadlock, where not a single forward pass was attempted by either the Blue or the Red Yearlings, the margin of inches failed on a last-minute Yale conversion attempt to give the ball game to Henry Lamar and his men yesterday...