Word: attempter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...declared, "are deriving great profits at the expense of the people. The great holding companies, such as the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, are ruining the country. It is a well-known and disgraceful fact that two years ago $30,000 were spent here at Harvard in an attempt to induce Harvard professors to spread propaganda for public utilities." As an illustration of the exhorbitance of the rates charged by United States monopolies, Mr. Thomas showed that the rates in Ontario where the electric power concern is owned and operated by the government are 300 per cent lower than...
...attempt at pronosticating the outcome of such a meet is difficult. This year it is all the more so, as Saturday's clash is shrouded in mystery by the dust of the "dark horses", who have it in their power to overturn the calculations of the dopesters and cast the margin of victory in favor of the outsiders. Unexpected Indian performances, cutting into the total of Cornell points, coupled with unforseen exhibitions by unheralded Harvard athletes may well give the University the edge necessary for a fifth victory. Upsets in the mile and two mile events in particular will change...
...meeting Professor Spaulding will speak before the Association of Secondary School Principals on the topic. "What May the Senior High Schools Demand of the Junior High Schools." He will also address the National Association of High School Supervisors and Inspectors on the subject, "Should Rural Communities Attempt to Establish Junior High Schools." Professor Spaulding, who is well known in educational work, recently published a monograph on the small junior high school...
There remained also the possibility that the Reserve banks would either raise their rediscount rates or attempt to persuade member banks to call in New York call money...
Iselin was not playing his customary game. While he started off fairly well in the first game, he dropped the second with little resistance. In the third game, however, he made a valiant attempt to stave off defeat, the game being deuced before Strachen finally...