Word: attempter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said Sullivan: "Your action ... so far as I know, represents the first attempt ever made in this country to prevent the development of a powerful weapon. The conviction that this will result in a renewed effort to abolish the Marine Corps, and to transfer all naval and Marine aviation elsewhere, adds to my anxiety...
Although police have checked with occultists over the weekend, no definite lead has been brought to light on the marauder who escaped three resident students in a confused brawl. Investigation is still under way in an attempt to pin down the visitor through the coat ripped from his back in the struggle...
...Samborski would not commit himself as to whether he or Cabot would be at short even if he were sound. Young's injury over the past week has given Cabot a second chance to try for a regular's role, and he has looked more than adequate in the attempt...
...expanded work program will be used at Radcliffe next year in an attempt to balance the dormitory maintenance budget...
...origin cannot be specifically dated, and its various features grew into fashion bit by bit over a considerable period of time. "We suspect that the origin of the literary exercises on Class Day," James Russell Lowell wrote in 1874, "may be traced by no doubtful inference to an attempt of the Overseers, beginning in 1754 and renewed at intervals for some ten years, to improve the elocution of the students by requiring the public recitation of dialogues translated out of Latin into English." Lowell was, however, evidently unfamiliar with the diary of President Wadsworth which indicates that some sort...