Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...course list is virtually inexhaustible, and no student can hope to cover all of it with any degree of completeness. The attempt will not be without its rewards, however. It has long been claimed that "no two economists ever agreed on anything"; there is sufficient truth in this to make Economics one of the most challenging, if perplexing, fields of college study...
...effortless skating of Guy Owen and Maribel Vinson will probably satisfy ice purists. Stunts purely difficult, but lacking any sort of entertainment value, are kept to a bare minimum. Perhaps the hardest stunt, and certainly the most unsuccessful, is the attempt to dub in music from off-stage while the performers are going through an intricate dance, and apparently a crisis in the plot. There is little original music; most of the songs come from old musical comedies, and are supposed to fit the current situation in the story. While there is something definitely second-rate about this, "Everything...
...attempt to drag in poor old James Monroe as a co-sponsor of aid to Greece [TIME, March 24] was a rather remarkable feat. I looked up what the Monroe Doctrine says with regard to Europe, and this is it: "Our policy in regard to Europe, which was adopted at an early stage of the wars which have so long agitated that quarter of the globe, nevertheless remains the same, which is, not to interfere in the internal concerns of any of its powers...
Earhay eyay! earhay eyay! With this clarion call, Dunster House summoned all students of the ancient and honorable language of pig-latin to the first meeting of its pig-latin dining table tonight, while the nearby Spanish mesa showed its disgust at the swinish attempt to hog student support...
Since Europe is still rather cut off from America as far as exchange of musical talent is concerned, it is a good time to indulge in a little crystal gazing about the Continent's younger artists, many of whom will attempt American tours during the next two or three years. Of the pianists in this category, perhaps the most important is Rumanian Dinn Lipatti, a former pupil of Cortot and Stravinsky, who is nearing thirty. Although he is a regular professor at the Conservatory of Geneva, Lipatti has been spreading his rapidly growing reputation by exhaustive tours of Europe. Already...