Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mental struggle that went on within the independent Chapayev before he accepted the civilian, as an equal has been strongly painted by Mme. Furmanov and is acted with a power only excelled by the climax, in which a white regiment sacrifices itself in an attempt to break the morale of the Reds. For the first time in Soviet photoplay, justice has been done to their stalwart opponents, and the scene of the psychological charge, with White troops marching stoically, awesomely to their death, is typical of the Russian mind and its grim realism...
Undefeated to date, the Crimson booters will attempt to keep their records clean in their encounter with Spring field this afternoon at 2:30 behind the business school...
WASHINGTON--President Roosevelt tonight vigorously accused the House Committee investigating un-American activities of permitting itself to be used in a "flagrantly unfair and un-American attempt" by disgruntled Republican office-holders to influence the reelection campaign of his friend, Gov. Frank Murphy of Michigan...
Committed to drive the Leftist Army out of the Ebro River salient won in late July, Rightist troops last week made their seventh attempt in ten weeks. By week's end the latest drive had petered out. On the long dormant front near Aranjuez, south of Madrid, Rightists felt out the strength of Leftist lines in several short, minor thrusts...
...annual salary of $30,000 (Forbes Morgan got $50,000), Director Sturges will take office next week, will commute from Washington to New Haven for the one course he intends to continue teaching. Not ambitious to become a Liquor Tsar, he presumably will attempt to sell the distillers on policing themselves. Said he: "I am undertaking the office...hoping that by cooperation with the public authorities we can eliminate all aspects of the sale and consumption of alcoholic beverages which may be offensive to important groups of our citizenship...