Word: attempt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This year's review of Business in 1947 (TIME, Jan. 12) was the most extensive TIME has ever run. A.D. 1947 was a critical, confused, difficult year, and the editors' attempt to evaluate it had to begin, of course, with the facts. Because many final figures are not released until after the year's end, the editors had to go directly to the sources for some statistics that were vital to the story. Many of them were to be had only in Washington, and some weeks before the story went to press Washington Bureau Reporter Marshall Berger...
Charley was a master of timing. He smothered bad publicity with good. The day the New Deal admitted defeat in its ill-fated attempt to have the Army fly the mail (ten pilots were killed), the Administration announced that Andrew Mellon would be investigated for income-tax evasion...
...Brown swimming team which is strong in the dash and breaststroke, but which promises little opposition in the other events, will take to the water in the Indoor Athletic Building tonight in an attempt to snap the Varsity's two-meet winning streak. The Freshmen of the two colleges will open the evening's proceedings at 7:30 o'clock, while the main event is set for 8:30 o'clock...
Stunned by a 45 to 36 loss to a classy University of Connecticut quintet, the jayvee five will attempt to regain its winning ways tonight when its entertains the Jumbo Freshmen on the Indoor Athletic Building floor...
...avowed attempt to become a national (or perhaps even international) student rallying-ground, the Progressive has not succeeded so markedly. Despite attempts to extend its authorship beyond the immediate Harvard vicinity, and despite sporadic circulation drives on various national campuses, the Progressive's ties with the local Liberal Union have yet to be severed. Of the eight articles, a brief book review, and an editorial which the latest issue contains, only two come from elsewhere than the Cambridge-Boston area. These two are a report of the Christian Socialist movement in Oxford by a student at that British university...