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Word: attempted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...National Gallery in Washington. Conspicuous in the show, said TIME'S Editors, were the vivid works of G. Sekoto, the only Negro artist included, who had taught himself to paint in Johannesburg, then left his native land to study in Paris, only to find poverty and despair, to attempt suicide and to be committed to an asylum for the mentally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Oct. 24, 1949 | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

...team started its season with a 26 to 13 loss to Andover. This was followed by a 31 to 6 trouncing by the Holy Cross freshmen. They will meet the Dartmouth yearlings at Hanover next week in an attempt to even up their record...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshmen Top Exeter Eleven By 27-7 Edge | 10/23/1949 | See Source »

...injun rights were claims to rooms in Stoughton, based on the charter tot the original stoughton Hall, which collapsed in 1871, (This 1695 charter is reproduced below.) Obviously unimpressed by the white man's spelling, the Indians had stayed away in droves; the 1939 assault was the first attempt ever to exercise the Stoughton Hall privilege...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dartmouth Weekend: Invitation to Buffoonery | 10/22/1949 | See Source »

...delight of this successful hoax was all the more the following fall when two Crimeds, posing as New York newspapermen, visited Hanover before the game and snared details of a monster Indian attempt to retaliate for the 1946 humiliation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dartmouth Weekend: Invitation to Buffoonery | 10/22/1949 | See Source »

Cambridge detectives arrested two men yesterday afternoon, in what appeared to be an attempt to rob the H.A.A. ticket office...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Two Armed Men Arrested at HAA | 10/22/1949 | See Source »

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