Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Headliner in the Hall of Science is the University of California's dramatic display of academic achievement. Most fascinating to visiting couples is the U. of C.'s not-too-scientific attempt to show them, by means of dolls, what their children will look like. Couples press buttons underneath the two dolls who most resemble them; machinery whirrs and out pops a puppet combining the physical characteristics of the parent dolls...
...problem of evil" each man must find his own answer, the President stated, and "not attempt to dodge the problem by wishful thinking." He attacked the enervating effect of an individual's or a generation's self-pity and found cause for some optimism in history's recital of unfulfilled evil prophecies...
Uppermost in the minds of the missionaries, however, is the eradication of sensual dancing. Quoting from "The First Dancing Lesson," they said, "It is a pity that those who attempt to defend the dance could not see a young innocent girl taking her first dancing lesson...
France. Unlike the German army, the French army does not strut. The French people are proud of their soldiers, but do not worship them. Since the fiasco of General Boulanger's attempt at a military dictatorship in the 1880s and the Dreyfus case in the '90s, the French army has eschewed politics...
...called "Mr. Frank" by his students at the University of North Carolina. Generally rated the ablest U. S. State university president, he has helped make North Carolina tops in the South. He fought in the trenches during the World War, still fights with the Legislature and utility interests that attempt to silence his liberal professors...