Word: attempter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...glided majestically past the coast of England, the Queen was not only steaming for New York but out of an all but vanished age-an age of which she had once been a sumptuous symbol, and whose splendor (and profits sorely needed by Britons) she was making a gallant attempt to recapture...
...activities of the Democratic administration. The pertinent facts of the May-Garsson scandal were public knowledge by the time that the GOP took up the reins of Congress; but Republicans can hog most of the credit for the smear "investigation" of David Lilienthal and the recent brief and abortive attempt to discredit the security measures of the Atomic Energy Commission. The grand finale is now under...
...crux of the matter: Wilson's attempt to reach an accord as to how, and at what rate, Moscow would repay a credit of ?55,000,000, resulting from a wartime agreement hastily made with the Soviet Union in 1941 after Hitler invaded Russia. In that, he had failed-the Russians insisted adamantly on terms which the British could not afford to meet. A reporter asked: "Is the door completely shut?" Replied Wilson: "That's up to the Russians...
...Council investigation indicated that the 1950 Red Book, the first to attempt operation without the purveyor list as basis for advertising solicitation, was already $500 in debt, and that the 1946 Album depended for about 85 percent of its advertising on those concerns selling to the University. These two books, the Council said, were the only publications considered in the investigation, since they alone have operated wholly under the post-war price structure...
Because the bones in Dr. Colbert's quarry are softer than the Chinle (sandy clay) formation that surrounds them, they must be taken up with great care. No attempt is being made to recover individual bones at Ghost Ranch: the entire bonanza is being hewn out in big blocks of rock (one to eight tons each), and shipped to Manhattan. There, in the next few months, experts will remove the matrix of rock around the fossils, and carefully polish and reassemble the skeletons...