Word: attempt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...university should attempt to govern the off-campus activities of students. On campus, students must be permitted to organize whatever political groups they choose, so long as they do not violate state or federal laws...
This spring, roughly a year after the Barnes Bill episode, there appeared another legislative attempt to throttle "subversive teaching" in Massachusetts...
...facts that were uncovered by those 33 sessions of the 11-man faculty committee are numerous and they are involved. But if the results of the Washington case are to be evaluated, some attempt must be made to summarize the testimony and make it comprehensible...
Representatives from Princeton undergraduate clubs will meet with university President Harold W. Dodds tomorrow to attempt to iron out the student-administration dispute that has kept the New Jersey campus in a state of near-revolt since Wednesday...
...contractor (Van Heflin) who was his senior officer when their plane was forced down during the war and the crew thrown into a German concentration camp. Parkson and ten others had a tunnel built through which they planned to escape. Frank Enley (Heflin) tried to persuade them not to attempt it but when they defied him Enley went to the Nazis, who agreed to leniency in view of the fact that Enley reported the scheme. The Nazis weren't lenient. Parkson was the only one who lived, and in "Act of Violence" he is out to "get" Enley...