Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...almost the same time Valencia's crowded tenements were bombed almost as severely. Leftist Defense Minister Indalecio Prieto claimed this was a Rightist "attempt to assassinate" seven British Laborite M.P.'s who had been visiting Valencia's law courts, were on their way to a luncheon at the officers' training camp. The nearest bomb fell at least a quarter of a mile away, but the Rightist's radiorating Queipo de Llano soon made priceless Leftist propaganda by bellowing that the British Laborites are "Marxist scoundrels and a pack of savages whom we will punish...
...rejected by other producers, is able by skilful play-doctoring, casting and directing to whip up a hit out of what looked like nothing.* Nevertheless, Abbott's whiphand some-times falters: his first two shows this season (Angel Island, Brown Sugar) were flops. But last week his third attempt looked as if it might last...
Questioned last night, Peabody said he was unwilling to attempt to reclaims the championship, saying "the basketball coach didn't like it no much after last time...
...average questionnaire sent to college applicants in secondary schools is entirely inadequate. Very few Universities obtain detailed reports from a young man's school, from his family, or from outside individuals who know him well. Personal interviews, the best guide of all, are almost never required. Little attempt is made to obtain data on a student's background, his adjustability, his ability to get along with his contemporaries or his emotional make-up, and as a result many young men are "misfits" in college. The problems of a University like Harvard are vastly different from those of family and school...
...week's end, sleepless and haggard, President Lebrun sent once more for Camille Chautemps, asked him to try to form a Cabinet. "We have been around in a circle," declared the Premier-Designate with an exhausted attempt at humor, "and we are back where we started...