Word: attempt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After an hour of speech-making, the convention adopted, by show of hands, a resolution which stated. "We are opposed to the war hysteria in the press and the attempt to orientate American foreign policy in purely anti-Russian term...
...Randall, Leverett coxswain, whose position Miss Grube endangered, saw the abortive attempt to muscle in as a 'Cliffe conspiracy to reassert its position on the Charles, lost last spring when the Annex boats officially entered permanent drydock as a result of financial inadequacies...
Kent Smith is impressively military as Enobarbus; his greatest flaw is a continuous attempt to make the speech sound "realistic," a style which crushes the beautiful verse of such speeches as "The barge she sat in ..." Ralph Crinton as Oetavius is excessively noisy--perhaps more insistent than calculating. Lenore Ulrie's Charmian, complete with New York accent and undulating movements, is the low point of the performance...
This afternoon, the team will attempt to make up for yesterday's whitewashing in a game at Fort Devens...
...ground-breaker for tutorial; it acquaints the student with the broader aspects of his field of concentration through the friendly medium of a personal association. It provides that the advisor's work with his charge shall transcend the signing of a study card, and that he shall attempt to awaken the latter's interest in the educational enterprise, or, finding it awake, pass him along into the tutorial program where he belongs. Where tutorial is too strictly limited, the advisor may assign readings and carry on the work of tutoring within reasonable bounds...