Word: attempt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last night, the Combined Charities Drive began an attempt to reach a goal of $25,000. From the Drive will come the money for the support of Phillips Brooks House and the Student Council to a maximum of $10,000. This sum goes for the Social Service Committee, Council Scholarships, Olbums and Redbooks, the NSA and the Salzburg Seminar...
...loss of Captain Kenny O'Donnell has left the wingback picture almost blank. In an attempt to fill the shoes of the man who has played about three quarters of all Harvard wingback this fall, Chuck Roche appeared briefly working out among the wingbacks...
Coming at China's darkest hour, the fall of Mukden, after the government's stubborn attempt to stay in Manchuria, gravely affected public confidence in the regime. Economic pressure forced the government at week's end to give up its price-control program as a failure, unfreeze price and wage ceilings. Overnight Shanghai prices increased four to five times. The new gold yuan (TIME, Aug. 30) had started on the same giddy spiral as the old Chinese national dollar...
...those days he wrote poems and stories ("an attempt to make peace with the world"), wore his hair long, liked to debate hours with highbrow friends, and took solitary walks. Says Oppenheimer, who discusses his own life as dispassionately as he does Archimedes' Law: "My feeling about myself was always one of extreme discontent. I had very little sensitiveness to human beings, very little humility before the realities of this world." He was, in fact, an intellectual snob...
Although the United States should not attempt to force capitalism on Western European nations, Professor Harris believes that the economic recovery of Europe is the best weapon against the spread of communism...