Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Harvard would be perhaps the least favorable environment for such an attempt. Where a student body is unanimous in its approvals and disapproval's, a newspaper constantly opposing it deserves no consideration as a representative of undergraduate ideas; but in the fifty-one forty-nine division characteristic of the University, the CRIMSON's policies, though never claiming to present student opinion, necessarily find some proportion of favor. Whenever the opposition to its statements, inevitably great under such conditions, grows to the stage of pen and paper, the columns have been ready to admit criticism to the loss of editorial space...
...Some attempt has been made to use gliders as load-bearing trailers to motored planes (TIME, March...
...officers in inducing them to block organization plans. But a bureaucrat ceases to be a bureaucrat once his resignation is in the President's hands. President Hoover explained that he did not purpose to accept these resignations-except where a minor official might be. deemed inessential or might attempt to stand in Efficiency's way. Aside from post masters, a President has about 3,000 appointive offices he may fill. President Hoover said he expected to make only "20 or 30'" changes...
...number of years. Before Soldier's Field was used to such an extent as today and before the Freshman dormitories were built, this region was one of the most unattractive in Cambridge. The destruction of these houses, both of cheap construction, marks one more step in the University's attempt in recent years to clean up the district, since the expansion of the College in that direction...
...Catholic Church is not a national church, but a universal society and to the head of that society men of all nationalities owe the same spiritual allegiance. . . . That certain nationalistic groups (in the U. S.) continually attempt to make him a 'foreign potentate' is a proof of the necessity that the universal, supernatural, and supranational character of his office be clearly recognized. . . . "No earthly recognition can add to the divine commission of the Papacy. The independent sovereignty which is rightfully hers and which has finally been restored to the Church will but evidence to the world the supernatural...