Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...second variety, Schapiro studies Van Gogh's "Crows Over the What Fields" in an attempt to understand the artist's last painting before suicide. This psychological essay probes the mood of the painter, analyzing Van Gogh's artistic devices. Schapiro points to the loss of focus, the uncertain movement and orientation and the unstable brush strokes that contrast with the painter's style in earlier pictures. In addition to noting Van Gogh's stylistic decay Schapiro adds that the painter was aware of this decay; thus his unusual attempt at structuring a painting...
American officials argue that the international money has partially thwarted the Federal Reserve's attempt to slow U.S. inflation by limiting credit. When the Fed tightens money to restrict loans in the U.S., banks often bring back the funds from the Eurocurrency market. In the past six months $16.5 billion has flowed in, and even savings and loan associations now borrow Eurodollars to finance mortgages...
...curious aspect of this great discovery was that like so many other physical theories of its time, it was to lie fallow for many years. Students were forever proposing theories in a frenetic attempt to account for the many contradictions in physics; Glashow's was regarded as just another prospect. "I was very proud of the paper," its author fondly recalls, "but I had no idea of its import. If we'd been smarter, we'd have realized as early as 1964 how important it was. But we were stupid. I had to import two foreigners to figure...
...attempt to bring their lofty ideas to a comprehensible level, both Glashow and Weinberg have decided to offer Core Curriculum courses. A walk into one of Jefferson's airy lecture halls at 10 a.m. on a Friday morning reveals a tall man with tousled hair, chalk in hand, expostulating on one of the many topics "From Alchemy to Elementary Particle Physics." Glashow is a highly engaging lecturer, disorganized perhaps, but gifted with the vibrant tone that communicates his irrepressible enthusiasm for the subject. For his part, Weinberg will be offering a course in "Elementary Particle Physics." One of his colleagues...
After Horner's grab, the drive stalled, and Cody, who had made only one field goal all year, a 25 yarder, came on for a 41-yd. attempt from the semi-liquid turf...