Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jameson and Charlie Houghton will open the game at the defense posts. Jameson played forward last year, but has been shifted back to the defense in an attempt to undo some of the damage done to that department by the graduation of such stalwarts as Russ Allen, Traff Hicks, and Gene Emerson. Houghton is the only player on the squad who won his letter at defense last season. Bob Perkins and Laurence Carstein will serve as alternate defensemen...
...ring of Navy steel, what the U. S. hopes to accomplish at Lima is to show itself so Good a Neighbor that 120,000,000 Latin Americans will eschew the ideas and products of neighbors which the Good Neighbor wants to keep out. On the eve of this attempt, currents and undercurrents showed the progress of the neighborly race...
Doctors were amazed to find that Mrs. Abrams' blood was 1.72% sugar. That ratio, they decided, came close to the world's all-time sugar high. (Even diabetics rarely have a sugar content higher than one-half of one percent.) In a desperate attempt to rouse her from her coma, and help her liver digest a thick flood of sugar, the physicians pumped 1,000 units of insulin into Elka Abrams' bloodstream, "enough to kill an athlete...
...President, who looks at the problem from a national viewpoint, must get Congress, who looks at the problem in a sectional manner, to pass his recommendations. Then the Supreme Court can invalidate them. Then the States may attempt to impinge their sovereignty. What civilized nation has such a hodge-podge of government...
...existing rules, which forbid men on probation to play on winning House teams against Yale, there would not exist the disparity of strength manifested in the case of the P.B.H. group, since the so-called "Ramblers" used men kept off the varsities by bad marks. Thus, for the abortive attempt of Claverly to obtain lasting status, the H.A.A. ought to provide professional assistance to the athletically-starved "outhousers" sometime before spring...