Word: attempter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University cross country team will attempt to avenge themselves for last year's defeat at the hands of the University of New Hampshire this afternoon at 3.30 o'clock when they race the Wildcat harriers over the Charles River course. Captain R. C. Aldrich '31 will run his first race this season, as will B. E. Estes '32, David Cobbs '31, R. W. Hale '31, and Daniel Merriman '31. Cobb and Estes have been on the injury list during the first part of the week, but are reported to be in good shape for this afternoon's grind...
...selection of the committees an attempt was made to secure representatives of as many sections of the country as possible, in addition to appointing men capable of filling the positions. With this view in mind, men from both public and private schools have been chosen. There are 18 representatives of private schools and nine of high schools...
...continuation of a series of studies of the annual practical workings of the Supreme Court, the essay analyzes the number of cases which come before the Supreme Court and how they are decided. It is an attempt to provide a regular systematic statistical analysis of the work of the Court, which can be reformed only by such methods as will provide concrete suggestions for this reform...
...same day that that money campaign was initiated, another was begun in Manhattan-for $6,000,000 to build a Gotham Hospital. It's fees will be moderate-an attempt to solve the great contemporary problem of giving first class medical aid to the man who is neither a millonaire nor a pauper. Women doctors will have equal opportunity with men on the staff. Said Matthew Scott Sloan, president of the great New York Edison (electric) Co., and chairman of the fund raisers, cheeringly: "I believe that women have a distinct contribution to make to the health...
...grimy men clambered out of the machine, then scrambled for a barricade, for threatening natives were running at them. The aviators gestured placatingly. They tried to pantomime that they were Frenchmen. Dieudonne Costes and Maurice Jacques Bellonte, that they had flown from Paris in an attempt to make a non-stop record over Europe and Asia, and that the exhaustion of their gasoline and oil had forced them to land willy-nilly. The Chinese insisted that they were Russian spies. Was not their plane painted the red of the Soviets? And away they took the Frenchmen 40 miles to Tsitsihar...