Word: attempter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President cabled President Carlos Ibañez of Chile: "I am most gratified to learn of your fortunate escape from the attempt on your life...
...useless," thundered Prime Minister Mussolini, celebrating on the morrow the seventh anniversary of the march on Rome, "and it may be even dangerous to attempt to disturb this divine harmony which runs from the King and from the heir to the Throne to the last peasant in our humblest village...
Land of the Soviets, Russian world flying plane, reached Detroit last week with its four operators. They started, on their second attempt, from Moscow Aug. 23, flew across Siberia to the Aleutian Islands (U. S.), to the Alaskan mainland, down the Pacific Coast to Seattle, to San Francisco, then overland to Chicago, Detroit...
...finds that the college alumni of this country are wrongly criticized in showing interest only in football games. He lays the fault for this restriction of interest squarely upon the colleges themselves. In the past, athletics and endowment drives have been the only connections by which the colleges have attempted to keep in touch with their alumni. In the future, be predicts, the colleges will make a definite attempt to keep up academic relations with their graduates. giving them the opportunity to continue their college work, and to keep in touch with the educational world...
...obtaining vocational positions for Seniors along with the alumni offers a solution to a problem which presents itself to practically every man who graduates from college without definite, preconceived plans for earning a living. This is the first time that the bureau has considered this situation with any attempt at developing a truly efficient placement office, and judging from the present proposed machinery of the project, a large percentage of the Senior class should receive gratifying results. At the very least, the contacts which the Placement Office will afford must be a considerable assistance in formulating vocational plans, even...