Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Next Tuesday the harriers travel to Rhode Island in an attempt to garner their second victory...
...Director E. Virgil Conway, who doubles as chairman and president of Seaman's Bank. Next on the campaign's hit list is Sidney Weinberg Jr., a partner of Goldman, Sachs, the investment banking firm. When and if he is forced off the Stevens board, the campaign will once again attempt to drive Finley off the boards of Sperry Rand and Borden...
Preston said the decision not to allow free parking on the streets, which was made after a series of meetings between Boston and Cambridge police officials, is "an attempt to make sure the streets stay open, especially for emergency vehicles...
...Attempt to open 200 units of public housing, 25 of which will be set aside for families frozen out of their homes...
...attempt to determine whether organic molecules can form on other planets, scientists at Ponnamperuma's Laboratory of Chemical Evolution filled a container with gases like those in the atmosphere of Jupiter. Then, to simulate sunlight and Jovian lightning flashes, they exposed the gases to ultraviolet light and shot electric discharges through them. The brown and yellow hues of the organic compounds that formed in the container closely resemble those in the spectacular pictures of the Jupiter clouds taken by the Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft, which flew by the planet earlier this year. This finding strongly suggests that organic...