Word: attempters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Several times in the history of Harvard there have been frontal and indirect attacks on freedom of thought, Buck noted. He cited as examples the restriction of anti-slavery discussion a century ago and more recently the attempt to prohibit Dunster House students from reading Norman Douglas' "South Wind...
Actually, we did not attempt this exacting job of putting the year's events in the world of business in their proper perspective until TIME was 17 years old. From that first year-end review to this one, however, a significant transformation in the viewpoint of our readers toward the review and toward business has taken place. In the beginning very few of you wrote to us about either of these matters. Since the war, we have received more and more letters from you-written by men and women, laymen and experts alike-containing knowledgeable comment on the facts...
Faye Emerson Roosevelt was recovering nicely from a minor razor gash on her wrist (eight stitches were taken, but only for what her doc Lor called "esthetic" reasons) and a major attack of tabloid headlines. After the first front-page flurries about an attempt at suicide had subsided, she and Elliott told their story: she had really cut her wrist accidentally while reaching for some aspirin...
...third rescue attempt the glider was safely loaded and picked up. It lifted 50 feet into the air before the towline snapped. A week later it,happened again with a new glider. Two more airmen were left stranded. By Christmas Day, the C-47 survivors had been down for 16 days, and the original seven-man group had swollen...
...Point more or less by accident (everybody else nominated from his district had failed), served with the Union Army during the Civil War, and won his place in history by standing firm during the near-rout of the Union forces at the battle of Chickamauga. These two new biographies attempt the difficult task of making the life of a military paragon seem interesting...