Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Attempted Theft. The Roma is the huge Bellanca sesquiplane which C. Sabelli was to fly to Rome last year. But her size and fame were no deterrents to six presumed thieves who last week audaciously attempted to take her from her hangar at Wilmington, Del. Bellanca guards forewarned by telephone frustrated the attempt and pleased George Haldeman, co-pilot of Ruth Elder's trans-Atlantic flight, now Bellanca's chief test pilot, who privately plans to fly the Roma whither publicity abounds...
...Harvard baseball horde journeys to Medford today in an attempt to win from the Tufts forces its third straight game of the series. Tufts has had an edge on the Crimson cohorts for the past ten years, having dropped only three tilts since...
There is a careful avoidance of any attempt on Hart's part to show how he paddled his own canoe, and point a moral to the striving young actor, which is a relief in this type of work. To a large degree the story is a connected series of antidotes of life in the movies...
...parallel appointment of an undergraduate secretary marks an attempt to bring the Union more closely into touch with the desires and needs of its members. With the progress of the House Plan the eating arrangements of the Union will attract a smaller patronage, and it is hoped that there will be an increased emphasis on its social activities. In this direction undergraduate management should prove a useful innovation...
...would not be unwilling to change his opinion of Harvard undergraduates were he to listen "to their comments on the CRIMSON article." They do not "dismiss it as the ranting of some addle-pate who has been reading some cynical books," but rather as the initial move in an attempt to clear away the "War Posters" from the walls of Widener...