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Word: attempted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attempt, however, has been made to suggest the kind of music that would have accompanied the production in the fifth-century. It was written by Leonard Bernstein '39 who not only directs the chorus but also has organized and directs the orchestra accompanying the play...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Chorus Trucks, Swings as Classical Club Portrays Aristophanes' "Birds" | 4/20/1939 | See Source »

...glad that the competitive publicity in respect to tutoring will suffer a check with the CRIMSON decision. We feel that tutoring is a professional work which supplements the instruction given in formal institutions of learning, and there is no attempt to supplement the colleges...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cramer and Wolff Counter Charges Issued Together | 4/20/1939 | See Source »

...picture, Producer Goldwyn, a stickler for detail, landscaped 540 California acres into a Yorkshire moor. He imported eight British actors, a dialect expert to see that their accents matched, 1,000 panes of hand-blown glass for interior shots and 1,000 heather plants for outdoors. He did not attempt to send for Emily Bronte. In spite of this oversight, there is not much she could have done to improve this screen translation of her masterpiece...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Apr. 17, 1939 | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

...advice on matters with which they became familiar while at SEC might lose its right to practice before SEC. SEC thereupon sued to enjoin former SEC Lawyer William J. Mahaney from "continuing to disclose" confidential information to his present employer, Banker L. M. Giannini, who is fighting an SEC attempt to delist the stock of Transamerica Corp. from the New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles exchanges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE GOVERNMENT: Drenching | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

...Conceit rather than the C.I.O. accounts for the fact that the villain, Tycoon Loring, finally gets the whole town down on him, including the high school football team. With its neat plot and smooth dialogue, The Stars and Stripes Forever is a sort of left wing Satevepost story-an attempt to adapt to left wing fiction the technique of catching gas bombs and tossing them back before they explode...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Gas Bomb | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

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