Word: attempter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...admitted Communist to its staff. But Granville Hicks is better known as a scholar than as a political radical, and on an academic basis only should the merit of his appointment be judged. In selecting Mr. Hicks, the University took into account that he has produced the best historical attempt at American literature, since the Civil War and has done other valuable research work. Nowhere along the official line was there opposition to him, which is proof enough that Harvard has determined to give substance to its oft-mentioned shadow of liberalism...
Miller argued that government seeks the cooperation of business in an attempt to "determine the rules of the game by which business is to be guided in certain of its competitive practices and price policies...
...contract, which presupposed a 51 percent A. F. of L. majority, in the dining halls and kitchens, was signed by the University without any attempt being made to prove the existence of this majority. The majority was not certified, as is usually the case, by the State Labor Relations Commission, nor was any general vote held among the employees...
...Sinclair Lewis, Theodore Dreiser, Sherwood Anderson and a score of lesser authors made their reputations by dramatizing the deadly influence of Main Street's narrow, inhibited middle-class culture. What has been happening on Main Street in the last hardbreathing decade of boom and depression? The single serious attempt to find out has been Robert & Helen Lynd's brilliant sociological study, Middle town in Transition (TIME, April 19). On the surface, reported the Lynds, the cultural pattern of Main Street in 1935 appeared to be intact. But the pattern showed significant new bulges...
...torrent of talk began with the two months of "masterful turbulence" that accompanied the attempt to impeach Johnson. When the Democrats gained power after the towering scandals of the Grant administration, Elaine baited Southern Democrats so skillfully that he soon had them roaring Confederate defiance, effectively distracting Northern attention from the Whiskey Ring...