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Word: attempted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Malcolm Wilkey '40, Euno Hobbing '40, and Stanley Kapner '40 will attempt to show the girls from Poughkeepsie that they're wrong. There is also to be a radio debate with Dartmouth from 3 to 4 o'clock over Station WAAB, with Harvard taking the affirmative of the question of whether the New Deal is more interested in government for the people, or in political power...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DEBATERS MEET VASSAR | 11/4/1938 | See Source »

While the director's work has been most successful in the field of students between school and Freshman years, another and perhaps more important job lies ahead. His office should next attempt to supplement records compiled for first-year men with similar information in the undergraduates' senior year. Not only would this be a step in the direction of post-graduate training, but the data afforded by comparisons would contribute a great deal towards research to be undertaken in Dr. Bock's Grant Fund program...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MUSCLES PUT TO WORK | 11/4/1938 | See Source »

...attempt to prove, by digging nearly four feet to the tomb of poet Edmund Spenser, that Francis Bacon was the real author of Shakespeare's plays ended in complete failure...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Over the Wire | 11/4/1938 | See Source »

...Ulster feel it is time to put an end to Mr. de Valera's activities. . . . Under no circumstances whatever will we listen to the rattling of the sabre or, for that matter, to the cooing of the dove where the integrity of Ulster is concerned. . . . Any attempt to meet Mr. de Valera's manifesto would lead to civil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRELAND: Like the Slovaks? | 10/31/1938 | See Source »

...ambitious attempt at a rounded story of detection, in which Albert Campion expertly solves three deaths in a professional and artistic London circle. Not only is it a skilful mystery, with a solution that stays in solution until the end, but it has good characterizations, and is a competent job of novel-writing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mysteries of the Month: Oct. 31, 1938 | 10/31/1938 | See Source »

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