Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other hand, neither ideology nor double-talk was involved in Low's last successful attempt to get a reentry visa for Communist-controlled Rumania. Rumanian Premier Petru Groza would not see him and so, knowing that Groza fancied himself a tennis player second to no one, Low let it be known that back in the States he himself had been quite a tennist. Around midnight three nights later his telephone rang: the Premier would like to play; his car would be around at 6 o'clock in the morning...
...letter to the Student Council last April, Dean Bender said, "The question of control will ordinarily be impossible to decide conclusively in the case of publications connected with fascist or communist movements whose code of morality is well known. So the Committee did not attempt to investigate the control of the New Student." We believe this shows that the politics of the New Student entered into the Committee's approach to the question of recognition...
...opposition has already made some inroads on the Rankin bill here and there; yet the House failed two days ago in an attempt to block veterans of World War II from the benefits. The Senate may be able to slice further into Rankin's proposal or even smother it in a committee. But the chances that Mr. Rankin can pry something substantial out of Congress seem about as reasonable as the chances that he can be blocked. Even if he is only partially successful, there would be less money for housing, social security, and other items that are necessary...
...conference has also been criticized by poet T. S. Eliot '10 as "an attempt to demoralize intellectual and moral integrity everywhere...
...Minor Vices (Enterprise; MGM) is a major indiscretion employing three able stars directed by Lewis (All Quiet on the Western Front) Milestone. It is a painfully misconceived attempt to stretch out and puff up a frail piece of whimsy into a frothy comedy...