Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...words do not always fit the music as nicely as they should. While a Marion Talley can easily and artistically spread one word or one syllable of a word over from three to thirty-three notes, it gives a rather awkward effect if many inexperienced and uncultured voices attempt to do likewise in particular when the syllable is not euphonious in itself...
...North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia legislatures ordered special taxes on chain stores. In Maryland, a law was passed forbidding anyone to own more than five stores in the county of Cumberland. Although North Carolina and Maryland courts have declared their laws unconstitutional, although South Carolina has made no attempt to enforce hers, although Georgia courts have granted a temporary injunction restraining enforcement-the passage of such laws has caused chain store operators to stir themselves defensively...
Instead of being a mere attempt to cover a vast and familiar ground more rapidly than is predecessors, this book represents rather an interpretation of history. The author conceives of history not as a landscape dominated by a few peaks of great attainments, but as a stream which is flowing constantly onward, running faster, perhaps, at some times than at others. Evolution is the central theme of his book, and he selects for treatment those salient facts which testify to the evolutionary process. This choice limits the range of factual discussion, and the principle governing the choice distinguishes the book...
...pessimism for the present and preparation for the future, an establishment of inclusive standards at na time when national literature has run aground in the twin streams of unapplied realism, and unrelated, subjective aestheticism. Agreeing with these critics, Mr. Munson still seeks the seeds of renaissance in the attempts of the young writers he cites. In its broader aspect, this attempt is unconvincing. The youthful obfuscations, artful vignettes though they often are, are such weak voices crying in dissonance with the other weak voices in a wilderness of theory and abstraction that the significance which Mr. Munson doughtily reads into...
...believe that our universities are places where half-baked young men in alcoholic stupors congregate to indulge in petty vices. But fortunately, most sane individuals are capable of discounting such pictures of the college student, and see in these caricatures nothing more than a grotesque and rather obvious attempt at humor. This is, however, a more sinister type of publicity concerning the undergraduate which is designed to catch the eyes of scandal-loving readers by distorting any item of college news which might be made to appear sensational. The tabloid and the so-called "yellow press" find in the most...