Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dick Sullivan and Rick Rabenold were the starting Harvard forwards, but Coach Fesler sent in his ailing star, Charley Lutz, midway in the first half in an attempt to stem the tide. Lutz collected eight points while he was in the game and did not appear to be handicapped by his ankle injury. Captain Lupe Lupien and Fred Heckel were Crimson stalwarts at their guard positions, and Homer Peabody and Bill Humes shared center duties...
...present U. S. Government is bent on sending it to the death house, has been fighting a rear-guard legal action with about as little success as Convict Tom Mooney. It has lost two major appeals in the Supreme Court. Last fortnight utility lawyers concluded a last-ditch attempt to get the currently New Dealish Supreme Court to reverse the "brutal doctrine of Chattanooga"-the opinion of a three-judge Federal Court this year that since TVA power sales are legal, utilities have no legal relief even from ruinous TVA competition. Last week from the death-house came a highly...
...comment came from Stanford University's Professor-Emeritus William Alpha Cooper, made a first-class German Eagle, or Professor Ralph Haswell Lutz, second-class. Said President Ray Lyman Wilbur: "It looks like an attempt by Hitler to look for friends. I'm glad he didn't spot...
...glance at the billing shows the Ritz Brothers to be featured in the minor picture, but this should not prejudice any except the most violent anti-Ritzists against the program as a whole. Only a few very dull sequences have found their way into this latest, horsey attempt, and there are a few funny ones; but even if it were entirely dull, the feature would fully compensate. It was no accident that the title of Deanna Durbin's "That Certain Age" was taken from a song Ann Rutherford sang in "Love Finds Andy Hardy." This newest vehicle for Miss Durbin...
Looking at the issues in the French general strike, which according to most reports failed in its attempt to stop all economic activity for one day, is like facing mud puddles. It is difficult to determine whether the opposition of the "Confederation Generale du Travail" to Premier Daladier's thirty-two decree daws, one of which suspended the forty-hour week, represents' a struggle between labor and capital or between anarchy and order. Or, whether the conflict is one between communism and fascism, or communism and democracy. The French themselves are as much confused as observers here and abroad; every...