Word: attempt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Late in the fourth quarter, after three first downs in three plays, the Quincy eleven fumbled on the Dudley 25 yard line to fail in its major scoring attempt and lost...
...attempt to seek responsive support from as many quarters as possible, the CCA prepares at election time a very detailed statement of its platform--probably a more detailed statement than any candidate, CCA or "Independent," ever would find necessary. A revised zoning code would hardly arouse much enthusiasm for a candidate, simply because the issue is so complex and seemingly removed from the everyday life of most voters. But those who, by training, inclination or business, might be involved or interested in that issue would find a clear statement of the position adopted by CCA candidates...
Since the beginning of September, the Program has received $1.2 million, much of it in small gifts. With general solicitation of alumni officially ended, the Completion Committee, directed by Henry U. Harris '23 and Thomas S. Lamont '21, will attempt to obtain the remaining funds from a selected 1,000 wealthy alumni and friends of the College...
...Convinced that "a new production of the play on the tradition basis would truly bury Ibsen for good" Miller has made an adaptation of Enemy of the People that strips away much of the pedanty and Victorianism of the play. Yet the injection of the Miller touch and the attempt to up-date the speech and action undercuts some of the play's force and argumentative strength...
MacLeish plans to compare Dickinson's poetic achievements to those of Yeats, Rousseau, and Keats in the remaining four lectures of his current series, "Poetry and Experience." He will attempt to establish that Dickinson's world is the private world, Yeat's the public, Rousseau's the artistic, and Keats's the arable...