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Word: attempted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Activities Fee could accomplish, without reservation, its aim of ending the problems of Radcliffe extra-curricular organizations, then the submersion of individual choice might be worth the attempt. The fact is, however, that there are strong reservations to be made, that along with the security promised by the plan come two new evils which would counteract anything gained and more...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe at the Crossroads | 3/24/1948 | See Source »

...paper that was "against people who push other people around." But PM was never quite sure what it was for. It made no consistent attempt to cover the news. Instead, it rode off on so many crusades that it often seemed to forget what the crusading was about. From shrill liberalism it had wandered into the pro-Russian camp-then had scurried out again and, recently, raised a horrified voice against Russia and also against its erstwhile hero, Henry Wallace. It had paid its way for only one year (1944-45). It had snooted advertising for six years, then found...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PM for Post Mortem | 3/22/1948 | See Source »

...estimated 90 representatives, including a Harvard Student Council delegation, will attempt to build what has been tentatively called the Boston Student Government Council...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Colleges Will Set Up Local Council | 3/20/1948 | See Source »

Twelve hundred and fifty empty seats have forced the HDC to sell tickets outside the College in its attempt to prove that Shaw's anti-war play is better than its winter showing in New York and that Sanders is not the only place where undergraduates can put on a play...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HDC Ditches Sanders, Rents Boston Playhouse for Show | 3/19/1948 | See Source »

Result of five weeks of preparation by a special four-man committee, the Society represents the first formal College attempt to ease orientation of Freshmen and to make visiting gridmen, sprinters, and debaters feel at home on opposition territory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Council Passes Charter Of Crimson Key Society | 3/17/1948 | See Source »

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