Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Crimson diamond forces will travel to Providence tomorrow in an attempt to make it two straight from the Brown nine. The chauces are that W. H. MacHale '31 and Soudheim of the Bruins will have another chance to fight it out from the mound as they did in last Saturday's encounter which Harvard took...
...Jayvee eight, M. R. Brownell '30, who has been rowing at two, and J. W. Hallowell, '31, a member of the third University squad, were tried out at six. There were also a number of temporary shifts in the bow fours of the Jayvee and third crews in an attempt to sift out the best men. In addition to the first and second crews, five oarsmen will go to Red Top later in June with the Freshman substitutes and will form a combination crew to race the Elis on the day preceding the regular regatta...
...temporary addition of nearly a dozen members of the class crew squad to Coach Brown's University squad for three days of rowing has given rise to a large amount of shifting of oarsmen in an attempt to select the best first and second University eights as well as five upperclassmen for the combination crew. Yesterday three revamped crews took a long workout and several additional substitutes were shifted from the coaching launch to the shells during the course of the afternoon...
Perhaps it was good statesmanship for Herr Schacht to attempt to postpone the close of the conference until after the British elections. He is not to be blamed for the too early convocation of the committee. But confidence throughout Europe has received a great blow from the dilatory tactics of the Germans. The task of the Germans in trying to satisfy a divided public at home is not made easier by the division among the Allies themselves, and the uibbling over minutiae which has made this conference so different from the meetings of the Dawes Committee...
...than in 1922, purchasing power of wages is almost 15% greater, thus making the wage-earner's pay-envelope extend comfortably beyond the bare necessities of life. The committee complimented U. S. industry upon its wisdom in realizing that its profits could best be based, not on an attempt to go back to pre-War wages or to maintain inflation prices, but upon increasing consumption through a policy of "low costs and high wages." Production and Consumption. Since 1922 primary production has increased about 17%, manufacturing and transportation about 28%. Greatest increase has come in per capita production, which...