Word: attempt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...indeed fortunate that the chief commercial agency, Dr. Gallup's, cropped up in the same location as the focus for academic research in the field. When Cantril and Gallup got their heads together they really sparked pretty well." The latest attempt to hold to standards, Allpot adds, is also Princeton-pushed: the International Congress of Public Opinion Research inaugurated at Williamstown in September and destined to lead to a certification system to insure reliable personnel...
Princeton University is about to begin a $200,000 "experiment in self-appraisal." Endowed by the Carnegie Corporation of New York, Nassin has set up a five year long study project which will attempt to evaluate education at Princeton today in terms of the institution's avowed purposes...
...this drive he indicated that the Council would attempt to work hand in hand with leaders of the student governing bodies in the various graduate schools of the University, such as the Law School's Phillips Brooks Committee, the Business School Student Association, and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Advisory Council...
Somewhere between the balm of a "courageous attempt" and the sting of a painful and wearisome failure lies the Harvard Dramatic Club's fall production for 1947. That it is brave to attempt the resurrection of a mouldering and awkward work by Henrik Ibsen can hardly be denied; the question is whether sufficient resources lie behind the bravado to justify the effort...
...club will also attempt to arouse interest in the ideals of the Republican Party...