Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...avoided the temptation to criticize the Democratic Administration by hindsight. With rare restraint, he made no attempt to fix the blame for past mistakes. "Those things are done," said Dewey. "The question is what lies ahead...
Voluntary organizations may, do, and should propagate their ideas and impress the public with them. The Church does not attempt to "force" the state to carry out its will; it merely attacks the proposed amendment. It is up to the voters to tell the state what they want. And are the voters in considering, the issue, "not . . . to argue it on a religions level," as the CRIMSON says? Is religion illegitimate...
...armed services and other Universities, the Department of Economics voted in 1946 to abolish its tutorial. This year Economics 10, "Thesis for Honors," has been struck from the catalogue. Together, the two measures now leave Economics concentrators little personal contact with their instructors outside the classroom. While every attempt is being made to give Honors candidates individual guidance in writing their theses, still it is all done on a non-credit basis...
...play in dispute was Feller's attempt to pick Boston's Phil Masi off second base during the eighth inning. Umpire Bill Stewart of the National League called Masi safe, and he went on to score the Braves' winning--and only--run on a single by Holmes...
...present draft law is "unfair" President Conant charged Saturday, urging that the Selective Service Act "be drastically changed by the new Congress." But he added that any attempt to obtain exemptions for college students "would be grossly unfair and socially unwise...