Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After one attempt, Zimmerman bucked off right tackle to score. A moment later he tossed a short pass to right-end MacVickar for the conversion...
Yale authorities, faced with a sellout of the spaces allocated to them called Cambridge yesterday morning to attempt to obtain a few tickets. William E. Perkins, Yale Business Manager, found a similar situation here, with all admissions assigned and turnbacks already stated for use, thus assuring a full house of nearly 80,000 for the Saturday tussle...
What is needed is a semosterly course to serve as a compliment to Humanities 12a--"Great Artist." This course should concern itself not only with great composers and musical works of the past, but should attempt to approach music from a more modern view, analyzing it as an outpouring of the emotions and social terminant. Also, it should strive to link up music with the other humanistic fields of art and literature. It should try to teach some understanding of the principles of the main forms and modes of musical expression, such as the sonata and symphony. By making...
...Nowhere do you attempt to give any other than a superficial one-sided analysis of the blood-soaked scene. For two centuries the British exploited and perpetuated the medieval illiteracy and intense poverty of our masses, by stifling all industrial and educational development to the unavoidable minimum. Rigidly enforced legislative measures magnified petty local differences to a vast national scale, where Hindus and Moslems secured desperately needed government jobs mainly on a religion basis, till in the ensuing bitterness and frustration a power maniac like Jinnah could suddenly leap out of the shadows and, screaming wildly, lead hundreds of thousands...
...University of Missouri's famed journalism school, is not unduly critical of this rubbish. Caught up in the details of exaggerated advertising claims, dubious publishing records and the secretiveness of publishing houses about their sales figures, Dean Mott spends most of his book in an overly conscientious attempt to get at the exact facts about the 324 books he classes as bestsellers* (he excepts Bibles, textbooks, cookbooks). His book's great value is that it is the first thorough exploration into a field which seems much more mysterious the more it is looked into...