Word: attempt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...over 100 men turned out for House grid practice yesterday, Samborski and House secretaries conferred in an attempt to work out a method of playing that will minimize accidents...
Died. Hamar Greenwood, first Viscount Greenwood of Holbourne, 78, Canadian-born British industrialist, last Chief Secretary for Ireland (1920-22): in London. A tough fighter against Irish independence, Lord Greenwood employed the Black & Tans in an attempt to crush the rebellious Sinn Feiners, for years after his retirement lived in fear of assassination...
...these questions Amsterdam met an even stiffer stalemate than on its attempt to define the word "church." There is a great gulf between U.S. activism and continental Europe's apparently passivist theology. Most U.S. Christians, as shown by Bromley Oxnam's tireless example, believe in muscular, active Christianity-serving their faith by works. To U.S. liberal Protestantism, most European Christians have a let-George-do-it reliance...
...have a good collection of paintings (mostly of the Barbizon school), including a Sargent and a Sir Joshua Reynolds: Girl with a Bird. When the mayor of Omaha tried to censor some profanity from the Lunt-Fontanne production of Idiot's Delight, Oxnam got him to drop the attempt, declaring: "Censorship is more dangerous than an occasional realistic line. If the mayor decides to remain in politics, may I suggest a theme song for his coming campaign: 'Every little Damma must be taken from our drama.' Censorship is, in fact, 'Idiot's Delight...
...golf, "Do not attempt to irritate partner by spending too long looking for your lost ball. This is unsporting. But the [good] gamesman makes a great and irritatingly prolonged parade of spending extra time looking for his opponent's ball...