Word: attempt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mouse under one eye and holding his press card like a hand grenade. He had been waved to the curb by a cop for blowing his horn too loudly in traffic. Becker, who was driving his wife home from the New York Yankees' victory dinner, had made an attempt to square things. He told the policeman: "Look, officer, I'm a working newspaperman. We were in a hurry. I'm sorry...
After a southern tour only a shade more rewarding than the gridiron expedition, the University Band has scheduled an unprecedented football concert for the Dartmouth weekend in an attempt to reform straggling lines...
...United States the Council's long arm has extended well beyond what was once a provincial share into the new National Student Association. The first fumblings of this postwar attempt to secure country-wide coordination of action on student problems showed what a leading hand the Council's spokesmen would have to play...
When the police pulled up in their two vehicles the intruder was still poised precariously on the ledge. They shouted to him not be attempt to jump, and he responded incoherently...
...What seemed expedient in wartime now becomes useless for Concentration. Science credits plus service work combine in a knotty problem that leaves the student frustrated and angry. Since the problems of men with less than eight terms at college have been so effectively solved, the future would indicate an attempt to aid those who, technically, have received a full education, but cannot quite resign themselves...