Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Beanpot championship and a winning season are still to come and targets worth shooting for in an attempt to cross-check a frustration-laden season for Harvard hockey...
Several medical students said yesterday they are in favor of the academic societies, but fear they may eventually be made compulsory. A third-year student said the societies are "a sincere attempt to ease some of the isolation brought on by the workload, but I don't see them as a moral proposition...
...students and alumnae respond favorably to the pilot program, the Forum will attempt to enlarge the number of available positions and may seek funding for students working during the summers, White said...
...village to the industrial metropolis; less than 10 per cent of the French are employed in agriculture. A five-fold increase in the number of working women signals an important shift in social mores. An extensive transportation network and greater radio and television penetration has forced provincial peasants to attempt to grapple with and understand the ideas and values of a technocratic society while their old traditions are repudiated by those ostensibly more intelligent and pithy...
What little action there is concerns Donny's attempt, masterminded by Teach, to steal a valuable buffalo-head nickel he sold to a customer several days before, unaware of the coin's worth. Teach plans the crime, infecting Donny with his enthusiasm and such telling logic as "You make your own right and wrong...so you know what I'm talking about here, huh?" Finally, Teach and Donny plan the caper, and Bobby is replaced by an absent friend named Fletch, at Teach's insistence...