Word: attempter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Coach Leo Barry brings a squad of potent Bruins to Cambridge at 8:30 o'clock this evening in an attempt to submerge for the first time a team schooled by Harvard's Hal Ulen. Although they have competed in but one meet this season the Rhode Islanders are known to be strong enough to extend the Crimson swimmers to the limit, if not prevail over them...
...Book Exchange refused to reveal what sort of pressure had been exerted upon them, but students who turned up for their originally scheduled review were sent to Hall. The Exchange was believed to have desisted in their attempt in order to keep on good terms with the Law School...
...midyears the Undergraduate Faculty Committee will try to determine by personal interviews what progress its fifty-five tutees have made toward their immediate ends in view. . . . By giving a Cooperative Test in each subject and repeating the same type of test at the end of the year, an attempt will be made to gain a factual estimate of their improvement. In one of these three ways, the Undergraduate Faculty may be able to discover whether it is giving its tutees the benefits they want. Lawrence Lader, co-chairman Undergraduate Faculty Committee...
...successor administration for a long time to come. Corollary of this (not of course believed by the President) is that the U. S. debt will never be paid off, and that until some drastic event-such as wild inflation-changes public opinion, the U. S. will not again attempt to live within its means...
...critical analysis discloses flaws in plenty. The action occasionally slows to a tortuous crawl in sequences where long pieces of quasi-philosophy or super-sentimentality are inserted. Also on the debit side is a strained and obvious attempt to give the picture social significance. But these faults are not sufficient to weight down an otherwise light and airy fantasy. Roland Young and Billie Burke, whose reputations characterize the film, fit happily into its mood and spirit; while the names of Janet Gaynor and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. look well on the marquee...