Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Volstead Act is not an honest or scientific attempt to define an intoxicant...
...faced the House of Commons, the Chancellor of the Exchequer seemed mad clear through. His wrath was due to an attempt by members of his own party (Conservative) to block a measure which, if passed, would effect important savings to the Treasury?savings perhaps sufficient to enable Mr. Churchill to face the voters at the forthcoming election with his budget not too precariously balanced. As his wishes were flouted by his own colleagues the Chancellor, seated grimly on the Treasury Bench, grew first pink and then red with rage, was seen to clench and unclench several times his large...
...Toro mentions darkly that although he has obtained several hundred decrees in Sonora courts in the past four years, the only attempt to attack their validity in this country was recently made in the court of famed Judge Joseph Sabath of Chicago who upheld the Sonora-del Toro decree...
...question has essentially resolved itself into a quarrel between the romantic and realistic points of view. The battle opens with the realist protesting against the archaism and viciousness of the theory that the gentleman pays because he is more liberally supplied with funds. There is generally no attempt to refuse this realistic contention, and from this point the argument conventionally assumes something of the following form...
...spur of the moment, couldn't think of anybody to whom they could pass the buck, so they had to admit that they were licked. The result is that our worthy guardians of law and order are at present racking their individual and collective cerebra in an attempt to evolve suitable tactics for the forthcoming cat campaign...