Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...work by reference to the McNamara case. A series of outrageous dynamiting disasters, resulting in tremendous losses of life and property, and surrounded by what appeared to be an impenetrable mystery, had aroused the structural iron corporations to action and Mr. Burns was engaged to make investigations. An attempt to wreak destruction on a mill in Peoria, Illinois resulted in the discovery of the most important clew in the whole investigation. A peculiarly constructed bomb had failed to explode, and this was found by Mr. Burns...
...attempt to accomplish this, he was forced to contend against the irresponsibility of a Los Angeles attorney, who in his craving for notoriety insisted upon making public every bit of information, regarding Mr. Burns's investigations that he could gather. He even went so far as to break in and rifle Mr. Burns's Los Angeles office in an attempt to find the detective's reports. Chiefly through this attorney's disclosures Mr. Burns was defeated in his purpose to bring the "big men" to justice and was forced to make his arrests prematurely. Notwithstanding the bribing of his operatives...
...recent number of the Saturday Evening Post appears an article by Professor Hugo Muensterberg h.'01, entitled "American Patriotism and Europe," in which he informs us of the real essence of his efforts during his year in Germany, as exchange professor. He tells of his attempt to carry out his real mission--to spread on the European continent reasonable ideas about true Americanism...
...remedy exactly this defeat is the object of tonight's meeting. It is an attempt to make men realize two or three years before their Baccalaureate Sermon that Appleton has a positive moral influence which every man sooner or latter would regret having missed...
...Tapping again in the line-up, the forwards showed much more speed, and worked better together than for some time previously. The second team men also played well, holding the first down to a low score until toward the end of the scrimmage, when they seemed to tire. No attempt was made to keep record of the goals, the scrimmage being only to give the men practice...