Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...quote one of the leading American statesmen and lawyers in a speech delivered some months ago on this very subject: "Let it be equally well known and understood that any attempt of a non-American nation to sieze a foot of American soil will be treated as a declaration of war against the United States. Such is the Monroe Doctrine...
...Copeland expressly disclaimed any attempt to expound either Emerson or Carlyle with authority. He acknowledged a debt to several books and to the illuminating conversation of Professor J. B. Thayer, who, upon Arnold's comparison of Marcus Aurelius and Emerson as moralists, made the important comment that, although Marcus Aurelius gives the world morality, Emerson gives it morality kindled...
There seemed to be little choice of plans; in fact, no prudent course but a seeming retreat to Memphis and a new attempt by central Mississippi...
These games next spring are designed to be the first of a series of such meetings; consequently the success of this attempt would mean a great deal to international athletics of the future. The next meeting will be held at Paris on the occasion of the World's Exposition in 1900, and the third meeting, according to the present plans, in New York, in 1804. An executive committee for America is being chosen by Professor Sloane...
...attempt to dissuade Argan from his dependency on the doctors, Toinette appears disguised as a foreign physician, and in this scene the quacks are effectually ridiculed. The attempt is defeated by the efforts of Celine, but the stepmother is at length shown in her true colors, when her husband feign death, and she shows her delight...