Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Finally the police gave up in their attempt to pin anything on Harry Bridges. The ambulance arrived in about an hour and took the suffering woman to the hospital...
...World War, I am writing to protest against your eulogy of the Australian radical, Harry Bridges, particularly in view of the inaccuracies contained in the article in question [TIME, July 19]. Real Americans are interested in ridding this country of alien agitators who impose upon our hospitality and who attempt to destroy the very government under which they live and have their being, and yet we find a national publication doing much to offset our own activities and to place upon a pedestal a man whose name is anathema to all real American citizens...
...York Herald Tribune might easily be mistaken for the Communist Daily Worker. Sad was the day in plush British drawing rooms when the Morning Post began to limp. After the Depression it reduced its price from twopence to the vulgar level of the penny press in an attempt to restore circulation. This year it was down to 116,000 and everybody in Fleet Street knew it was for sale...
...commit an error equal to Boswell's when he snarled that "Gibbon is an ugly, affected, disgusting fellow," or to Dr. Johnson's when that captious fellow club-member implied that it was Gibbon who had ruined Rome. Ingenious as well as admiring, Biographer Low makes no attempt to turn ugly-duckling Gibbon into a swan: the greatness of The Decline and Fall is dramatized more effectively by contrast with the fussy mite of a man who wrote...
...accuracy and ingeniousness of theory, publishers as predictors of best-sellers are about on a par with those obstetricians who attempt to predetermine the sex of their clients' babies. Because Anthony Adverse and Gone With the Wind were big novels, publishers have lately favored what might be called the Weights & Measures Theory. This week Publisher Macmillan again subscribed to this theory with the announcement that And So-Vic-toria weighed 7! Ib. in typescript, ran to over 1,600 pages in manuscript, 618 pages in print, and was going to be a successor to Gone With The Wind. Critics...