Word: attempt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Economics Department is making a definite attempt to reintroduce tutorial, Harold H. Burbank '15, David A. Wells Professor of Political Economy, announced yesterday...
Geologists are now studying the region to attempt to predict when this increase should be expected. Some now think it will come within the next 30 to 50 years, Leet said...
...July 27, Toronto vice consul Albert Stoffel replied to graham that no final decision had been made. Five days later, Chancellor Compton sent a telegram to FBI chief J. Edger Hoover, in another attempt to clear up Shortliffe's position...
...mines, the factories and the union meetings. Britain's parties today have so much in common, a trait which is to a great extent inherent in Parliamentary governments, that the success or failure of either one will rest ultimately on the people at large. It would be foolish to attempt to predict the outcome of the present political skirmish on the basis of devaluation, its results, and the debate. If the Conservatives return to power at the next election, and then manhandle devaluation, the laborites will have a strong talking point in succeeding elections. Whatever happens, the pound is still...
Harvard Square, Cambridge's nationally notorious traffic intersection, is in a whirl this month. The City Planning Board, in another desperate attempt to unsnarl the pedestrians from the buses from the cars, is experimenting with a rotary traffic plan. So far, the daily scrimmage of man against machine has grown only more exciting, hardly any less dangerous...