Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Nearly all the difficulties we have to deal with in regard to interstate commerce arise from the laws which now control business. The Interstate Commerce Law of 1870 is a successful attempt to control interstate commerce by regulation: the Sherman Anti-Trust Law of 1890, on the other hand, is an attempt to control interstate commerce by preventing combinations in restraint of trade, and up to the present time it has not been successful. The United States under the law can control the agent but cannot control the interstate commerce that the agent engages in, the latter being under state...
...bunched and the wings did not keep their positions as they should have done. This had a noticeable effect at first, but later the line straightened out and the attack worked much smoother. The defence was strong and played a hard body-checking game which defeated all but one attempt at scoring...
Since the Cornell game, several shifts have been made in the line-up in an attempt to fill the vacancy caused by the injury to Captain Hornblower. Yesterday afternoon the team had a short practice with the line-up which will start the game this evening. Huntington will fill Hornblower's place at right centre and Childs will replace Pierce, who has been substituting for Leslie. Foster, who has been playing a strong game at point, will start at coverpoint and Blackall will fill his place at point. Chadwick, Seamans, and Duncan will be at their original positions...
...Jones's first dramatic attempt in London was made in 1879 when his comedietta, "A Clerical Error," was accepted and produced by Mr. Wilson Barrett. In 1884 Mr. Jones wrote the first of the series of plays of modern English life with which he has since become so closely identified. This play, "Saints and Sinners," brought up the propriety of dealing with religious matters on the stage and provoked a great deal of criticism. Other famous plays of Mr. Jones's are "The Liars," "The Physician," and "Mrs. Dane's Defence...
...facilities available in Cambridge deserves the support of the students, for the utility of the results obtained from this inquiry will depend wholly upon the number of men who send in their answers. The University authorities have never had the information that is now being sought, and the systematic attempt being made at present to collect this data, if met by the co-operation of the students, will be of great aid in solving the difficult problems presented by the management of the dining halls...