Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...educational leaders . . . [who] feel that the partition recommended by the General Assembly does violence to the rights of small nations and the self-determination of peoples as proclaimed in the Atlantic Charter and the United Nations Charter. They believe it is far more dangerous for the United Nations to attempt to enforce an unjust solution than to look for another which could be just and workable...
...attempt to keep that promise turned out to be far more difficult, exciting-and welcome-than the innocent simplicity of 1923 foretold. Before the quarter-century was done, TIME had tried to comprehend and convey the color, drama and meaning of such far-flung complexities as gangsterism, Franz Kafka, swing music, fancy funerals, Wallis Simpson, Marxism, aerial warfare, soap operas, Arnold Toynbee,* Barbara Hutton, the British spirit, Theodore Bilbo, Chen Li-fu, the Townsend Plan, Suzanne Lenglen, currency devaluation, Aldous Huxley, atomic fission, Jimmy Walker and the Supreme Court...
...TIME will at least make an attempt to follow them. . . . But TIME'S religious page has [another] . . . fundamental function -to follow religious thought. Just as political philosophy does, in the end, control politics, so religious thought determines the course of churches...
Coach Barclay's Varsity quintet will throw its record, bottom grimace on the Ivy League totem pole, onto the Arena court against the Eli at 9:30 o'clock in a do-or-die attempt to save its season. Yale stands sixth in the seven-team circuit with an unimpressive two-win, seven-loss record to the Crimson's one victory and seven defeats...
...same time, the House, after two hours of debate, killed an attempt to introduce a somewhat amended version of the Barnes Bill...