Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Deal is an attempt through political means to improve the functioning of the capitalist system...
...Deal merely age-old attempt to check dwindling Income by drafts on Capital. Age-old result should be due fairly soon now, and will doubtless be styled the New Mother-Hubbardism...
...President radioed to Governor Blanton Winship of Puerto Rico his happiness over the latter's escape from assassins' bullets (TIME, Aug. 1).* In Kansas City, Mo., the Secret Service arrested one John Dean, 65, for enclosing clippings of the attempt on Governor Winship's life in a letter to President Roosevelt which said: "Don't you take a chance. I feel that I must come to Washington to kill you for my country is at stake and I love my country passionately...
...peak in the Jungfrau range, was first scaled in 1858, has been climbed many times since. But until three years ago, the Eiger had never been tackled via its north wall-a terrifying, ice-coated precipice over a mile high. Then two glory-greedy Germans decided to attempt it. They never returned. Nor did seven others who tried...
...tipped off the Mirror and Photographer Smooke. Day after the Mirror story broke, to the acute embarrassment of District Attorney Thomas Edmund Dewey, other dailies picked it up. New York Herald Tribune headlined: DEWEY'S OFFICE DOES NOT DENY DAVIS SEES GIRL. Most obvious explanation was that an attempt was being made, through Miss Dare, to blandish Dixie Davis into turning State's evidence against his co-defendant Hines...