Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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According to Kitty, the production will attempt to get away from the traditional nineteenth century. Hamlet, a middle-aged romantic with a mature, if resigned philosophy of life. The HTW Hamlet will be adapted to a college-audience and to a college cast...
...nation's problem, said Wilson, was fundamentally "to produce more"-but not at all costs. "Any attempt to raise wage rates faster than the actual increase in hourly productivity," he said, "will only add to further inflation." Rationing and price controls would not increase the supply of goods. They "tend to reduce production" in some lines. The only answer, Wilson declared, was to abolish the 40-hour week, "a heritage of the days of planned scarcity. All of us," said he, "must work longer and harder if we are to achieve the postwar standard of living that we dreamed...
...William Wister Haines's Command Decision, a tense story of hard choices at an A.A.F. headquarters, was made into a hit play on Broadway. The Steeper Cliff, David Davidson's novel of a search for the meaning of intellectual courage in postwar Germany, was the best fictional attempt to treat of the problems of peace...
...season for poetry. No significant new voices pierced the shrill chirping of minor versifiers. What distinguished the year's poetry most was the high ambitions of its practitioners: their attempt to carve verbal order from life's chaos. Few succeeded...
...good example of the direct service a University can do to the country by intelligent foresight and readiness to open up new fields of study." The Alumni Bulletin was speaking somewhat before the fact. In 1925, Baker, after having spent more than ten years in an attempt to persuade the University to permit him to solicit funds for a decent theatre, slipped quietly away to Yale, in what Morison calls the greatest victory of Yale over Harvard in the twentieth century. Two years later the word was revealed that one of the Harkness millions had been offered Harvard...