Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...back alley of America and peers into an ignored and white-washed rotten area that seems to bother no one around. The great intolerance of orthodox Stalinism is then demonstrated in the author's Legree treatment of anyone south of the Ohio river--an intolerance of human beings who attempt to solve their problems a little less violently if a little less rapidly...
Smarting from Tuesday's defeat by Holy Cross, Coach Hill Barclay's Varsity quintet will attempt to resume winning ways this evening when it journeys to Providence to meet a Brown team out for its first victory of the season. The game, which will be preceded by a Jayvee contest, will begin at 8:30 o'clock in the Marvel Gymnasium...
Unlike "State of the Union," "Born Yesterday" does not attempt to crackle with timeliness and relevance. The setting is politically topical, but little chance was taken that ideas become so complex as to get in the way, Long and loud, the laughs hinge on modern-day Malapropism and punchy stuff like the often-mouthed "do me a fayvuh, Harry--dwop dead." Judy Holliday's absence from the road company cast is inescapably conspicuous...
With an inaugural victory under their belts, the Freshman quintet will attempt to keep a clean slate when they battle Exeter on the Indoor Athletic Building court this afternoon at 3:00 o'clock...
...delegates will attempt to create an organization through which subsequent and more completely representative student meetings can discuss and act on matters of student welfare. The quality of the delegates may well determine the success or failure of the Chicago conference, for in the past student gatherings have invariably sunk knee-deep in weighty resolutions instead of chasing after specific objectives. If a student organization can be set up now to function forcefully on such questions as GI allotments, the miserable condition of public education in the South, and religious and racial quotas in schools, the student's part...