Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...because of "yesterday's grave event" he had suddenly canceled his trip to. the U. S. to see President Roosevelt and the New York World's Fair. Simultaneously Mr. de Valera informed British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain that his Government would take a "serious view" of any attempt to conscript Irishmen, whether they live in Eire, Northern Ireland, England, Scotland or Wales...
...medicine man. . . When I have a patient [who believes he is] acting under the command of a higher power [see p. 18], a power within him . . . I dare not tell him to disobey. . . . He won't do it if I do tell him. ... All I can do is attempt . . . to induce the patient to behave in a way less harmful to himself and society. . . . Instinct should tell the western statesmen not to touch Germany in her present mood. She is much too dangerous!" Practical political suggestion by Dr. Jung was for the western statesmen to turn mystic Herr Hitler...
...famed Memorial Hospital, suggested a straight-forward physical theory for the lethal effect of X-rays. An electric charge passing through a cell, said Dr. Failla, divides the molecules of protoplasm into positively and negatively charged particles. These ions then recombine to form new chemical substances. In a vain attempt to re-establish osmotic equilibrium in the cell, water from the intercellular spaces flows into the cell through the membrane, causing the cell to swell...
...States-and we condemn those who ignore it for one reason or another-cannot be understood as a so-called religious or racial problem. We beg that the bitter lesson of Europe be learned: that where anti-Semitism triumphs, Fascism triumphs as well. . . . Equality will combat all those who attempt to cover up manifestations of antiSemitism. . . . It is becoming clear that all the forces in American life concerned with . . . combating anti-Semitism are veering from the hush-hush position to a demand for action...
Professor Shapley's talk followed and expanded an exposition by Dr. Bart J. Bok, assistant professor of Astronomy, of the attempt to disclose the Internal structure of the universe by work on the Milky Way. Bok is attempting to prove that the Milky Way is a rotating spiral nebula and has based his work on the ninety years research on external galaxies which the Observatory has conducted...