Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...credit for this revival of works of undeservedly neglected composers. To it also must go much credit for the rebirth of great bodies of musical literature--the medieval music of the Roman Catholic Church, for instance. American musicology, in the person of Carleton Sprague Smith, is making an attempt to revive another little known type of church music, the psalm tunes of early America. In his lecture at Paine Hall last Friday he began a discussion of the 17th Century Calvinist setting of these psalms. Mr. Smith, who is by no means a stuffy musical archaeologist, is as amusing...
...called on Italian Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano at Milan. Foreign correspondents guessed that Italy was balking at helping, even morally, her ally Germany against her old tried-&-true friend Poland, and that the German Foreign Minister's trip (plus trips by German military men) was simply an attempt to again smooth out ruffled relations. Even the Italian press, which unanimously described the enthusiastic crowds which greeted Herr von Ribbentrop at Milan, editorially predicted that the conference would produce "no sensation...
...attempt to forestall Encirclement in the Baltic, Führer Adolf Hitler invited Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark, Estonia and Latvia to conclude non-aggression pacts with Germany. Latvia and Estonia jumped at the chance. The other four countries reserved judgment until their foreign ministers had a chance to meet at Stockholm, agree on a common policy. Sharpest opposition to acceptance of the offer appeared in Norway...
...Germany grabbed Czecho-Slovakia, but has since returned to Zlin. His biggest current problem is the 25% countervailing duty imposed by the U. S. on German-made goods, which completely kills Czech shoe imports (3,250,000 pairs last year). The Belcamp plant is Bat'a's attempt to hold this fat U. S. market...
...which is housed in the Littauer Center, to carry forth into the world the results of their research. For as Dean Williams has said, the emphasis of the School will be upon investigation and research rather than upon formal instruction. Through the agency of the Littauer Center, a distinct attempt is being made to direct work in the social sciences at Harvard more effectively towards the larger problems of policy and administration with which our government is confronted...