Word: attempt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...those reasons, some rock-ribbed conservatives such as wealthy, 72-year-old Walter Dillingham oppose statehood. Said one of them: "In view of world uncertainties and the attempt at outside control of our local affairs, this is not the time for us to cut loose from federal control...
...mystery of the common cold is still a mystery. The latest attempt to penetrate the Kleenex curtain ended, as usual, in a sneeze. For 18 months of experiment, volunteer human guinea pigs had sniffled and hawked at Harvard Hospital near Salisbury, England (TIME, Feb. 3). For the greater glory of medicine, they had snuffed up nasal washings containing other people's cold viruses, submitted themselves to ten days of scientific observation...
...poet, author, lecturer, a major general in the Union army, a major general in the Mexican army, a minister to Turkey, the organizer of an insurance company, a fortune-hunter, a hero. He was ruined by the Battle of Shiloh and again by postwar politics; ruined again by an attempt to organize a Mexican army. But after all his misfortunes, he wrote Ben-Hur which, both as a novel and as a play, and later as a movie, exercised a genuinely magnetic hold over the American imagination...
...further attempt to disabuse the audience's, traditional conceptions of Hamlet, the group voted to reduce staging and costuming to austerity. Kilty basked that all members of the club and any one interested i appearing in the play come to part readings in Sanders Theatre today at 1:30 o'clock...
...becomes a choicer between the Marshall Plan or nothing, then we must attempt the nothing," said Miss Kubie, who went on to propose as alternatives passage of aid through the U.N. and increased effectiveness of the International Bank set up at Bretton Woods...