Word: attempter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...liberal is a determined, intelligent man, and is wholly admirable as a person, but there is no attempt made to hide the inherent weaknesses of his position. It is admitted that if people are allowed to choose their own courses free from dictation, they will blunder as often as proceed wisely. The inertia and occasional impotence of democracy are freely conceded. The communist is allowed to write a novel about the squalor that our economic system allows, as seen in the sharecroppers of the Mississippi delta...
...generals used their heads again. Franco's army before Teruel is supplied by a single road running north to Saragossa, parallel to the main Aragon front. Instead of trying to repulse Franco by pouring men into the town, Leftists launched four attacks at four separate points in an attempt to cut this road. If any of the four had succeeded, Franco's attacks on Teruel would have had to cease. None did succeed, but Leftists proved that they still have offensive power left, that their staff work is now good enough to coordinate four attacks at once...
...first years of the Soviet Union, to escape from Russia was difficult and dangerous. Today it has become almost impossible, an attempt tantamount to suicide. Barbed and electrically charged wire, searchlight-equipped watch towers. 24-hour frontier patrols aided by bloodhounds and police dogs guard every mile of border. Therefore, excitement was great in Latvia last week when Victor Konarski, onetime Soviet port chief at Leningrad, made good his escape to Riga...
...scientific expeditions, wangled government support for his journalistic adventures and launched balloon races that started as many as 50 gas bags blowing wildly over the U. S. Nobody knows what wires Bennett pulled in Rutherford Hayes's Administration to persuade the U. S. Navy to back the terrible attempt of the Herald to find the North Pole. But on July 8, 1879. a crude, unwieldy little naval vessel called the Jeannette sailed slowly out of San Francisco, carrying scientific equipment, a crew of 31, including two Herald correspondents, headed for the Polar Seas and sure disaster...
Lowes maintained that the University had never fixed the extent to which it would make use of the union in securing new employees. He implied that an attempt would be made to maintain the present ratio of union to non-union workers. The University would feel free to hire the best man for the job, but would be scrupulously fair...