Word: attempter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...father of oarsman Howard Turner '40 was so interested in the new machine that he leaned over too much in an attempt to see the intricacies of the streamlined motor. His pocketbook dropped into the water, went sailing through the complicated machinery, and came out the other end unscathed. All the bills were recovered, just slightly the worse for the experience...
Despite the police crackdown, the bombings continued throughout the week and several more attempts, all unsuccessful, were made to damage Britain's vital public services. On the west coast of Eire, an abortive attempt was made to damage a hotel in Tralee where bespectacled, 25-year-old Francis Chamberlain, only son of the Prime Minister, was on holiday. Most Britons had forgotten that the Chamberlains had a son; British picture agencies, deluged with requests for his photograph had none. Young Chamberlain has been employed for a year as a $25-a-week apprentice at the Witton plant of Imperial...
...giving up its land. Disgraceful as he considers the German treatment of Jews, the "cure for the eviction of Jews from Germany is not to be sought in the eviction of the Arabs from their homeland. ... No code of morals can justify the persecution of one people in an attempt to relieve the persecution of another." He denies emphatically that Jewish money in Palestine has helped the lot of the Arab masses...
...Donahue '41, sensation of last year's Freshman team, who reputedly won eight events in a meet during his preparatory school career, will attempt to score a double in the hurdles and dash. Though up against strong competition, observers think that Don may chase Alan Tolmich across the finish line for a second place ahead of all other New England timber-toppers...
Although tea was first sold in England in 1657,* tea gardening remained a Chinese monopoly until 1834. That year, fearing invasion, China threatened to close her ports to foreigners and East India Company merchants promptly began tea cultivation in Assam. The wily Chinese foiled the first attempt by selling tea seeds which had been boiled. Even after cultivation got under way, it was not successful until an Englishman named Robert Fortune disguised himself as a Chinese and spied out the methods used in the famed Chinese tea gardens. Today Britain has ?120,000,000 invested in the tea industry, produces...