Word: attempter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Crimson Key was formed last year to cope with the problem of visiting teams and students from other colleges, and to attempt to unify the activities which student groups undertake in connection with athletic events...
Enthusiastically interested in the black arts, Jasper Symmes '52 last month convinced Jasper McKee '51 to aid him in an extensive survey of metaphysics. The first real experiment, scheduled for this week, was to be an attempt to make contact with the devil. Symmes explained that the ritual involved drinking the blood of a white dove at midnight on a windswept field...
...Almost-right" is almost right, and sweet of you to say so [TIME, Nov. 15], but it won't do. I made no attempt to "predict the election," a business up to the electorate. I said, on the evidence of what I could see and sense from, where I sat ... that it was going to be close-closer than the country thought. It was. That wasn't "almost-right." It was right. Quite right...
...young Indian held a first-class ticket, but the guard ordered him to sit on the floor. When the Indian politely refused, the guard began to beat him furiously. The Indian showed no anger, made no attempt to defend himself, but he stuck to his seat...
Barbara Bancroft '51 could not positively identify Gallagher as the youth who invaded 6 Acacia st. Thursday night. Six Radcliffe graduate students who saw him briefly during his trouserless intrusion into Founder's House were unwilling to attempt identification...