Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Regardless of one's views on the American Student Union, any thinking person must regard the banning of that organization from the Roxbury Memorial High School as but another attempt of Boston educational authorities to destroy academic freedom. The Boston School Committee has justified this suppression on the grounds that the American Student Union constitutes a "Communist" menace, boring subversively at the city school system from within...
...characteristic of the book is a series of biographical sketches, which includes Lord Haig, Marshal Foch, Joffre, Ludendorff, and Lawrence of Arabia, as well as numerous lesser known military figures. These portraits are much more than more recitals of the chief events in the men's lives. They rather attempt to evaluate the influence of their previous experiences on the events in which these soldiers took a leading part. Captain Hart attempts to pierce the enveloping mist of popular applause and adulation to present the war leaders as they really were. With an almost too brutal frankness are exposed...
Although a serious attempt will be made to bring properly qualified Undergraduates to the University to spend a year as members of the Senior chase, meet of the scholars will be graduates with a special said of interest. Already Latin-Americans have signified interest in Harvard's courses in Medicine, Archaeology, Economics, Anthropology, History and Government...
Chairmanned by Attorney James L. Magrish, they divided into subcommittees to work out a plan. Since no town feels it is grown-up until it is pierced by a subway (Chicago is finally digging one), the most likely result of their deliberations will probably be an attempt to sell Cincinnati taxpayers on the downtown loop, send good money after...
...tables, published this week and called The Natural History of Population* Author Raymond Pearl, an eminent biologist of Johns Hopkins University, has been much in the news lately because Harold LeClair Ickes, an eminent Washington politician, lighted on one of Pearl's researches in another field in an attempt to show that U. S. newspapers avoid certain types of news. Dr. Pearl had concluded that tobacco impairs a smoker's chances for long life; umbrageous Secretary Ickes felt that this finding was insufficiently reported in the press, a view which Dr. Pearl himself failed to share (TIME...