Word: attempt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...G.I.s fought gallantly, Howlin' Mad Smith relates. Bodies piled high before their guns. Their ammunition ran out. Then they were overrun, partly because their own 3rd Battalion made no attempt to shift over to help stop the fanatical Japs. The attack was finally halted by Marine artillerymen and a Reserve Army infantry regiment, after U.S. troops had suffered over 1,000 casualties. Smith then yanked the 27th out of the line, never let them do any more fighting in the Marianas...
...break in the game came with ten minutes to go. Harvard took the ball after Yale missed a field goal attempt, and drove to a score in 13 plays. Struck faked, spun, and cracked off tackle for twenty yards; Macdonald ran for more; and with the ball on the nine, Foley charged into his right tackle, faked, and cut outside to score standing up. Chief Boston lifted a kick through snow, sleet, rain, and mud, and it was all over. The tired Yale team never came back...
Swimmers of the Annex junior class "reached Yale" yesterday afternoon during the second day of water intramurals in an attempt to complete a mythical journey through eight men's colleges and "get back in time for the Yale game" Saturday. The sophomores, for whom no swimmers had turned out on Monday, swam right past the senior and freshman teams and on 164 lengths to Dartmouth...
...editor, Dr. Morris Fishbein, a nonsmoker: "We have noticed an increasing trend to make health claims in cigarette ads, and we think this practice is unfair and unwise. The A.M.A. believes in self-regulation by industry, if possible. By printing this editorial, the A.M.A. is making an attempt to encourage industry to look into this situation itself...
...news that tutorial has come back to the Economics Department. Until this new move, the Department seemed to have dropped the undergraduate's status to an all time low, so far as the Division of History, Government, and Economics goes. This was brought about by the Department's unsuccessful attempt the year before to have its cake and eat it. At that time there was a "course" giving credit to students writing a thesis, but including no tutorial at all, which was a combination that the Faculty's Committee on Educational Policy did not consider cricket, since the requirement...