Word: attempt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Trouble national student supporters of schools all attempt to fit choice into the top ten. This is which the invention of the stretch has failed to alleviate...
...week's end, Rivera ungraciously exposed Siqueiros' attempt to supply him with an alibi. In a letter to El Popular Diego admitted that he had indeed shot at the bus driver-but with a blank cartridge. Denouncing efforts to picture him as a lover of the proletariat who went around shooting proletarians, Rivera said that he had shot in self-defense after the bus driver had tried to run him down. He had been coming home peacefully in his station wagon, he said, when he found the Calle Centenario blocked by a bus. There were excited words, spiced...
...they will work within a plan of study. Furthermore, this plan will include study not only of economic and political institutions, but also of sociological, anthropological, and psychological sides of Russian life. The findings of the Center will be valuable because they will form, in Kluckhohn's words, an "attempt to consider the workings of current Russian institutions as a system." They will be uniquely valuable, because this scope is unprecedented...
...current General Education experiment deals in the same values envisaged by the concentration and distribution program. It places a number of courses introducing the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Natural Sciences at the service of the College. These wide surveys are an attempt to coordinate the type of course offered for distribution with the ideals of the system. At present General Education lies buried under the mass of specialist courses. As a theory it hopes to present a constructive solution to the problem that has haunted American education for half a century...
...institutions capable of pulling a class together, the Smoker is one of the only ways to dispel the apathy so prevalent now. The present 1951 attempt to "surpass all previous Smoker gaiety" should not be stymied by the abortive affair of last year, when the Class of '48 was forced by fear of publicity to forego Jane Russell for chalk talks by Dahl, and finally to forego Dahl for no Smoker. But publicity is unfavorable only if riots and abductions ensue, and by vetoing the get-together, University Hall only intensified the disunity already present...