Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...writer in the Chicago Times says: "An astronomer told the writer yesterday that the experts in that science do not attempt nowadays to cover all the ground, but each confines himself to his chosen department of work. The field is too vast for one man to attempt to spread himself all over it. Prof. Pickering, for instance, the director of Harvard Observatory, is a great observer, and gives almost exclusive attention to his telescopic work, leaving the mathematics of the science entirely to his assistants, Messrs. Chandler and Rogers...
...arbitrary rules; for no matter how strong the regulations may be made, cases will continually arise in which exceptions will have to be made to their strict enforcement. The fact is that it is impossible to draw the line unerringly between professionals and amateurs, and if anybody should attempt to draw such a line he would find himself confronted with a multitude of unanswerable technical questions. In trying to enforce the rule against professionals, therefore, the faculty will be compelled either to do injustice to many, or to act inconsistently with the strict interpretation of the rule. Everybody understands...
Joseph Mullett was convicted at Dublin yesterday of complicity in an attempt on the life of a juror, and sentenced to penal servitude for life...
...crews got into position upon their first attempt and were sent off by the referee at 4.23. The seniors caught the water first followed by the juniors, freshmen and sophomores in the order named. For the first minute, '83 rowed 36 strokes, '84 and '85, 35 and '86, 33. At the end of ten strokes '83 had drawn away from '85 until there was clear water between the boats. '84 was very close on to '83 with '86 right behind, '85 now holding fourth position. About one hundred yards from the start '83, followed by '85, began to steer...
...arranged that the public can fairly estimate the advantages of our present distribution of limited exhibitions in comparatively small rooms devoted to special objects, as compared with the usual museum arrangements, by which all the collections of an establishment are thrown open to visitors, without any attempt to select the more important or interesting objects, or to arrange them in an instructive manner. As soon as the new geological and biological laboratories of the corner-piece are occupied, probably at the commencement of the next academic year, the same arrangement will be extended to the geological and palaeoutological collections...