Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Cornell's star back, Shiverick, was injured early in the game and did not show his usual form. His punts were not as effective as were those of R. Horween '18 and his one attempt at a drop kick was a dismal failure. In the second period Cornell advanced from its 35-yard line by a series of rushes to the University's 25- yard line, from which spot Shiverick's hurried drop kick was almost blocked. Cornell's defense was by no means impregnable. Both teams showed ability to gain ground at one time or another through their opponent...
...indirectly in a touchdown, for it was followed by a long forward pass, Casey to Coolidge, which gained 20 yards. The period ended at this moment. As soon as the second quarter started Casey broke through for a 15-yard run for the University's first touchdown. Robinson's attempt at a goal, from a difficult angle, failed...
...really a series of sentimental pictures of a most unattractive pre-Raphaelite type, joined together by several strokes of the leader of the orchestra's baton; and a few real bits of music. We are so used to recognizing the unreal as reality on the stage, that this attempt at picturing life as it is, is simply burlesque. A Shakespeare could harmonize a drunken porters' scene with the rest of "Macbeth," but it is doubtful if even he could bring together with any measure of success a grief-stricken mother, whose son fails to return from battle, and a typical...
What have we done in Mexico? Our initial purpose was to befriend a sister republic; we have ended by incurring a hatred which generations of painstaking diplomacy may not obliterate. Our refusal to recognize Huerta, our brazen attempt to regulate) Mexican politics, our bluster at Tampico and Vera Cruz and our subsequent undignified withdrawal, --these are acts which defy interpretation in terms of any national and con- sistent policy. We befriended Villa, we countenanced Carranza, and we failed utterly to protect American rights and American lives. After the massacres at Santa Ysabel and Columbus, we started out to "get Villa...
...been announced by the board of editors of the Musical Review that the paper will not be printed this year. It is, however, to be revised, enlarged and made over up-to-date and will appear in the fall of 1917 as a medium of modern musical discussion. An attempt will be made to include as subscribers all men taking courses in music in the University...