Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...probably vain attempt to render less uninteresting an article which is primarily statistical, a few matters of interest are mentioned, including the names of the several coaches with the years in which they were in control...
...later from cities in other parts of the country. A few of the cases were secured from printed documents, . . . but the bulk of them were obtained first-hand from public officials, bureaus of municipal research, and civic organizations. Altogether about 150 cases have been collected. Each of these cases attempts to raise for discussion some fundamental principle of municipal government and each involves an issue which permits an argument on both sides. In some of the cases the decision arrived at has been given and the student is asked whether or not he believes it was a sound...
...holding our own against anybody in the world.... As to our adversary, he has evidently played better than we. . . ." The game of chess, Capablanca hinted, had become so formalised that it was perhaps possible for an expert to draw every game in case he wished to do so. To attempt victory demands a move which, if its implications are overlooked, will supply an advantage but which, if they are detected, will lead toward a checkmate...
...amusement, one suspects, though the element of finance may have some place in the picture What he has achieved is a novel which belongs distinctly in the featherweight class, employing a preposterous plot and progressing to an unimportant little climax. Occasional flashes of humor are obscured by the ponderous attempt to make the whole affair very funny indeed. Only the author's acknowledged facility with the pen saves Vanguard from being spoken to quite sharply. The Author. Enoch Arnold Bennett, 60, was born near Hanley, England- the "Hanbridge" of his familiar "Five Towns." With a limited education, he descended...
...with ironic humor, saw that he was put in jail, with the implication that it might be a glass house where one could break stones and not throw them. But Mr. Enwright was not cast down, and arose Prometheus like with his sickly pinkish paper which is an avowed attempt to outdo the most rabid tabloids. And it is unbelievably successful...