Word: attemptedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...particularly striking in the section on the dormitories. In truth, there is very little to say about the difference in "character" among the dorms, even less than among the Harvard Houses. A lengthy blurb on each dorm is bound to deteriorate into a few private jokes or a questionable attempt to attach cliches to each one--Briggs: "cool, self-assured sophistication;" Eliot: "talkative;" Holmes: "musical, spirited, homey;" Whitman: "slightly mad potpourri...
...second phase, if it got that far, would presumably consist of a Russian attempt to "unpack the package" by throwing out a series of isolated counterproposals, each designed to catch the fancy of one of the Western powers and to horrify the others. (Example: an appeal for a mutual reduction of armed forces in central Europe, which would hold out to Britain the prospect of dismantling her costly Army of the Rhine, but would strike France and West Germany as the forerunner to U.S. military withdrawal from Western Europe.) Aware of the West's well-publicized failure to formulate...
...Theodore O. Thackrey, onetime editor of the New York Post, ran into difficulties with the haulers in his attempt to publish a new tabloid, the left-wing Compass. Referred to an ex-convict (bail jumping, dope peddling) named Irving Bitz, Thackrey paid Bitz $10.000-half what Bitz demanded-for a trouble-free contract with the Deliverers. After collecting the money, Bitz introduced Thackrey to Joseph Simons, then president of the Deliverers' union. The Compass died three years later, but it had no trouble with Simons' union...
...stretch of the 880 to catch Bill Hanne of Army, who had whipped him easily indoors. With the javelin all but over, Tom Blodgett won the event with his next-to-last throw, and he took first in he pole vault with a 13-ft. effort on his final attempt...
...jumper John deKiewiet and pole vaulter Tom Blodgett contributed wins in their specialities. Jim Doty, Stan Doten, and Roger Wilson swept the hammer, and Hank Abbot triumphed in the shot. Shot putter Steve Cohen, fighting for a letter, uncorked a 49 ft., 7 3/4 in, heave on his last attempt to beat Karl Mayer of Dartmouth for second...