Word: attempters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Four days, later, on February 9, Bill Barclay's hungry five and John Chase's hockey team get going. The basketball team will attempt to snap out of an eight game losing streak against Army at West Point, and the much-improved sextet will get its third try of the season against undefeated Boston College at the Arena...
...York police department responded with the assignment of a detail of 400 policemen and appropriate attendant publicity. Now it is one thing for the Communist Party to attempt to make a Keystone Comedy out of the trial; it is another matter entirely for the City of New York to help them. In the first place the presence of that many police says, in effect, that the defendant's followers are ready to use violence against the federal judiciary. But that is the charge upon which the eleven are being tried. Conceivably, the sight of all that blue serge could influence...
...baby compared with this gang," said ECAdministrator Paul Hoffman last week, in language that was tough even in an era of tough talk. "I don't think the American people have this world conflict in focus . . . Let's talk about it for what it is-an attempt by the gang in the Politburo to take over the world . . . If you have been out in Asia ... it gives you the heebie-jeebies...
...center . . . [The Germans] were informed or led to believe that they were being tried by Americans for violations of international law. At the other end of the table would be the prosecutor, who would read the charges, yell and scream at these 18-and 20-year-old plaintiffs and attempt to force confessions from them...
...attempt to catch up with Columbia, RCA Victor next day demonstrated its new, small, unbreakable record (TIME, Dec. 27). It has a large center hole, and is geared for 45 revolutions a minute (compared to the standard 78). Thus it could not be played on conventional phonographs or on Columbia's attachments. It required a new record player, made by RCA. The advantages of the new record (higher fidelity, faster changing) seemed to be outweighed by the disadvantages. Victor would not even promise that "Victorgroove" would be cheaper. All it promised was that "the new system will...