Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...streets had at all times been alarming enough to drive him into a shop or up a lane, and he had not survived the creation of the first batch of married fellows. How he had got into this thoroughly wrong paradise was a mystery which he made no attempt to explain. "A nice place this, eh?" he said to me; "nice gardens; remind me of Magdalen a good deal. It seems, however, to be decidedly rather gay just now, don't you think so? Commemoration week, perhaps, a great many young ladies up, certainly; a good deal of cup drunk...
...relative speed of walkers and runners is shown by the fact that L. E. Myers, the champion short distance runner, was recently defeated in his attempt to run three quarters of a mile while Murray, the champion walker, was walking half a mile...
...care to look at a case of books with such an unattractive dress and as Poole says, "books lose their individuality by being covered." these latter suggestions apply more to the care of numbers of books together. In that connection it has been said that "you should never attempt to classify books on your shelves by the colors of the bindings, or by the sizes of the books themselves. Put the works of an author together, so far as possible, however incongruous their sizes may be. And try to keep books on the same and kindred subjects as close together...
Eight professors and seventy-five students of the St. Louis College of physicians have revolted. The college was started five years ago under the patronage of several influential democratic politicians. The attempt to combine pathology and politics has been unsuccessful from the beginning, and while the Dean of the faculty, Dr. Bauer, and Dr. Hazard, a medical member of the Executive Committee, have drawn their salaries regularly, the other professors have been put off from time to time with unwritten promises to pay. This, together with a lordly way the directors had of disregarding any request made by the faculty...
...Another attempt is being made by some Yale men to start an illustrated paper. It is to be hoped that it will result more favorably than the last. [News...