Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...present Mr. Martin is engaged in perfecting his machines, and while it is possible that he may attempt a short flight today, it is probable that he will not fly until tomorrow. Mr. Martin uses two machines, one a "Baby Grahame-White," and the other a large Farman biplane, built by the Burgess-Curtis Company, of Marblehead. During the meet he will probably use the smaller machine for a flight for a cash prize around the State House...
Yale Training Quarters, Gales Ferry, Conn., June 14, 1911.--The Yale crew was sent over the full four-mile course this afternoon. The stroke was kept low and no attempt was made to reach racing speed. The time given out was 23 minutes, 38 seconds. After the row the men were taken back to their quarters in the launch Elihu Yale. The conditions were perfect. A change was made in the university four-oared crew today; Howe was put in at stroke, Appleton going back to 2, displacing Buckingham, whose condition is not up to standard...
...poor condition of the elm trees in and about the Yard has made radical changes necessary. The trees have been attacked by the leopard moth, which bores into the wood, making any attempt at their extermination practically impossible. Moreover, work on the subway and the sewerage system in Harvard square has been injurious to the trees, as much moisture is drained off, thus making them more susceptible to the attack of the moths...
...different periods of the world's history. The clergy does not today have as great power and influence as it has had in certain periods of the past, but this situation has not been brought about to any great degree by the growth of scientific skepticism. In the very attempt to remove the causes of its own existence the Christian clergy has suffered in loss of prestige and power. The diffusion of the Christian spirit exists today to an extent which has never been known in the history of the world before, and if the clergy does not hold...
...Advocate begins with an optimistic editorial on the latest shibboleth, the Honor System, and then presents the reader with a poem entitled, "To Some Good Editor Who'll Think." The latter contribution is an attempt to write humorous verse in that singing, swinging metrical form found in "The Ingoldsby Legends." Since the subject matter of the poem, however, is not rollicking, but only noisy and tawdry, and since the metrical structure is so uneven that the stanzas seem but rows of rhymed, unaccented sentences, the author, happily unknown, can hardly be said to have attained his goal...