Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...taken what I consider a most wise course, in announcing our intention of dissolving our connection with them. This seems to me the policy which will of necessity be adopted in future. It is the only way in which we can avoid the unpleasantness sure to arise when we attempt to pull together and find by experience the difference in our interests...
...expense of the city of Cambridge or of the State, according as one or the other has control of the bridges. Neither would have any advantage in making the change, and unless a very strong petition could be presented to the proper authorities it would be useless to attempt to induce them to do anything about it. Nevertheless, the construction of the arches would be of so much advantage to our boating interests that we hope an attempt, at least, will be made to induce the authorities to undertake the work...
...resolution rescinded, and who have come to doubt the numerical strength of their opponents, it seems but just that some statement of the reasons for their desire to withdraw should be made public; and it is with this object in view that the following has been written, where an attempt is made to give in the simplest possible way some of the arguments for secession...
...editorial in a Magenta a few weeks after the formation of the plan of the present Dining Association, an attempt was made to give a reason why so few students - at that time only a hundred - had applied for seats in the Hall. This was attributed to a doubt on the part of students as to whether four dollars a week was a price that would insure good fare, and the suggestion was made that extra dishes should be supplied to those who were willing to pay for them. Four dollars was fixed as the minimum, with the idea that...
...perhaps on a mass of sombre blocks and lonely warehouses. But her room to a grisette is like a port for a vessel; she leaves it, she comes back to it, but she lives away front it. Every hard-earned dollar is spent in dress and a praiseworthy attempt to make herself comely and fascinating; she emerges from her room as a butterfly from its unpretending chrysalis, and hardly any one could imagine the plump little shop-girl that serves him so deftly ever came down from such garret-like apartments, and trudges her way to the more frequented...