Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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More specific if scarcely more credible was the Soviet radio's description of the start of hostilities. Finnish soldiers, the radio reported, "invaded" the Soviet Union three times on the night of Nov. 29-30. After the third attempt the Red Army lost its patience and at 8 a.m. the war was on (see p. 23). It was notable that the war was 16 hours old before any Soviet newspaper or radio got around to giving communiques...
...Browder emerged from the hall, he was surrounded by cheering and booing students. Enthusiasts began to throw vegetables at his car, and there was an abortive attempt to turn the car over, but cries of "Cut it out!" from cooler heads soon stopped the monkeyshines...
...Chicago literary "renaissance of a few years hence. Meanwhile in Manhattan, old-line publishers were glooming because there were no new writers to replace the big names rapidly dying off: Ruskin, Tennyson, Carlyle, Emerson, etc. Kimball bought Stone's share in 1896, headed for Manhattan, made the only attempt to publish a U. S. literary daily (the editors burned out in a fortnight), soon fizzled out as a general publisher. He ended as an authority on industrial pension plans, inventor of World War I's "baby bonds...
...which each part of the painting exists, are the work of a master painter. No element in Hopper's piece is created "in vacuo"; the houses, mountains, and the water are each related to the other in a very real sense, yet we are not conscious of any obvious attempt on the part of the artist to bring these elements together by means of labored and intricate composition. We find no straining at the leash of any one part to break into prominence and destroy the equilibrium which exists. The Sargent paintings, on the other hand, although interesting and well...
...annual winter meeting in New York Saturday, the American Rowing Coaches Association made another attempt to salvage some of the wreckage that war has made of the 1940 Olympic Games by adopting a resolution that the regular Olympic crew tryouts be held on Princeton's Lake Carnegie as scheduled...