Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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First of these is a report on "student finance and employment." The committee will attempt to analyze trends of the past 20 years in considering such questions as the effect of employment on student's work, the effect of tuition cost rises and the usefulness of the Student Employment Office. Eventually, the committee hopes to submit recommendations for at least the next five years...
...committee also intends to plump for expansion of tutorial wherever practical, and will attempt by various publicity devices to tell the story of a Harvard education to headmasters and their schools all over the country. The School committees of the various Harvard Clubs will aid in this project...
...natural that legislators should attempt to protect society from the abuses of bad labor leadership. It is also natural that employers--who are sponsoring the three referenda--should attempt to capitalize on a few instances of labor racketeering by using them as a springboard for all-out anti-labor offensive. In their zeal to eliminate certain patent abuses, however, the reformers and the electorate may bring to life a whole new set of labor problems which foment bad union-management relations and prove detrimental to employers, labor, and the entire community...
Born. To eden ("only God and the Infinite should be capitalized") ahbez, 36, bearded Hollywood yoga, whose recent attempt at songwriting netted him Nature Boy and a potential $20,000, and anna jacobson ahbez, thirtyish, vegetarian mystic : their first child, a son; in Los Angeles. Name: tatha. Weight...
...does his best to exploit the emotions of the one decent girl (Debra Paget) he has ever known. All this heelish behavior is shown to be worse than mere lawbreaking, and all of it is shown to be part & parcel of a lawbreaker's mentality. The movies seldom attempt so much, and seldom carry it out with such knowing attention to character and detail...