Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Keyes DeW. Metcalf, director of the University libraries, said that the library staff will attempt to provide complete service...
...varsity hockey squad will attempt to retaliate last week's loss to Brown tonight at Providence, but they won't have Tom Moseley around to help. The fast left wing will be spending the evening in Stillman nursing a case of chickenpox while his teammates besport themselves on the Rhode Island Auditorium ice, and the Crimson, still looking for a second win, will be working without the usual offensive punch of the second line...
After the third unsuccessful attempt, the guests decided to eat the taffy unpulled. "Id wushndt zo bad," they mumbled through locked jaws...
Last week all undergraduates at England's Cambridge University got a stiff, stern letter from Vice Chancellor Charles E. Raven. It concerned their behavior on Guy Fawkes Day, on the 342nd anniversary of Fawkes's unsuccessful attempt to blow up the House of Lords...
Felton took fourth place in the 1948 Olympic hammer throw, while Dreyer, of the New York Athletic Association, was nine times national champion in the 35-lb. weight class. Burnham, captain of the Dartmouth track team, will attempt to break the Dartmouth record in this event, and if as he is up to form has a good chance of doing...