Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Former University students David G. Lyon '32 and Ernest Hampden were driven back by the intense heat and flames as they tried to push into the living room in an attempt to rescue Gardner. They too turned in an alarm and then battled the blaze unsuccessfully with a hand extinguisher...
...they are charging too much, business men have been well warned of future dangers. For concrete examples of what sudden slump would mean, they have samples in the sharp cut of restaurant and night club activity last fall, the spectacle of full-scale fur sales in December, the desperate attempt of liquor companies to head off a price war when liquor sales took a nose dive. These are piecemeal readjustments, the wholesale collapse of an over-expanded price structure would be much worse if for no other reason than its immensity...
Post-vacation pledges pushed the Phillips Brooks blood donor totals above the 320 mark yesterday as canvassers spent last evening in a final attempt to garner a few more pledges for the drive opening tomorrow...
...Even when he mated a Molly with a male Gambusia (by artificial insemination), her offspring were female. Dr. Hubbs even tried to create artificial male Mollies-with no luck. By putting male hormones in their water, he made some Mollies brighter colored. But they remained Amazon, and did not attempt to be fathers...
Somebody out-Lampooned the Lampoon Friday, and as a result, the magazine's staff spent the day scoring the local newsstands in a frenzied attempt to save the work of two months from premature annihilation...