Word: attempters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wooly-minded TIME editor who characterized Walter Stace's attempt at a solution of the problem of moral standards as "wooly-minded," an onion. To Princeton's clear-thinking Professor Stace, an orchid...
Behind Taft's leadership, the Senate beat back an attempt, by Massachusetts' Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., to tack on an anti-segregation provision, which would have smothered the bill in Southern votes. An effort of Missouri's Republican Forrest Donnell to bar Roman Catholic schools from even indirect help collapsed, and so did one by Connecticut's Democrat Brien McMahon to require such indirect help. Such questions were left, as Taft had insisted they should be, to the states. In the end, the Senate passed the bill...
...doubtful whether the tonal characteristics of the Boston Symphony will change greatly under Munch. There will be shifts among the musicians--there always are--but it is very unlikely that Munch will attempt to completely shake up the orchestra in order to make it sound like a French ensemble. Aside from the impracticality of such a step, Munch looks at the Boston Symphony as a completely different instrument from those he has led in France, not necessar-6The Boston Symphony's new conductor CHARLES MUNCH chats with his predecessor SERGE KOUSSEVITZKY after the Symphony Hall appearance of the Orchestre National...
...relessed in police custody soon thereafter, in "fair condition." Hospital authorities stated that razor outs on him fudfested a suicide attempt...
According to Fischelis, this is merely "a first attempt to go into the situation. A fuller examination of the whole problem of the co-educational aspects of extra-curricular organizations is coming up next year," he promised...