Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With the rapid changes which are constantly being made in the attempt to adjust the circular system to the divisional examinations and the distinction theses, it seems highly probable that the time is not far removed when Seniors who are candidates for distinction will be relieved of all regular work during the last half of the year, when the demands of divisional examinations are falling most heavily upon them...
Contrary to the usual custom of dissolving the Phi Beta Kappa Tutoring Bureau at the end of the Midyear Examinations, an attempt will be made this year to continue the services of that body until June, according to an announcement made yesterday by O. S. Loud '29, first marshal of the organization...
Obviously it was most important that some experienced and competent investigator should attempt to find out, before these natives became submerged in industrialism, their varying capacities for absorbing European civilization without being poisoned...
...House of Commons an attempt to pull Sir John's leg was made by another, more humorous, Scot, Austin Hopkinson, M. P. "Will not the Right Honorable Gentleman," he suggested, "take it upon himself to order that all third class eggs shall be rubber stamped with the Scottish national motto: Nemo me impune lacessit...
...positively affirmed that after a further attempt had been made to penetrate the Pontiff's reserve, he sternly exclaimed...