Word: attempting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Dutch defense plan, like the Polish, is one of strategic delay and retreat. No attempt could be made to save the northeastern provinces. First stand would be made in a line of pillboxes and blockhouses running from Zwolle south through Nijmegen all the way to Maastricht, behind the Ijssel and Maas (Meuse) Rivers (see map). While this line held, the civilian population would be taken behind a second defense system, called the Grebbe Line, extending southeastward to Nijmegen from Eem on the Ijssel Lake (the diked, reclaimed Zuider...
...intelligent individual, having a normal interest in modern art, has often been forced to throw up his hands in despair and mutter something about "artificial catchwords". Well, it is true enough that any categorizing term used in the sphere of the aesthetic is nothing more than a valiant attempt to oversimplify; it is also true, though, that certain descriptive terms do have precise meanings; and without a knowledge of these meanings, however slight, an understanding of modern and contemporary art becomes extremely difficult...
Speaking on "Russia and the War," Professor Karpovich pointed to the Soviets' present attempt to subjugate Finland and her recent attack on Poland as indications that she is out for everything which...
...attempt to overshadow the Varsity football game with New Hampshire, two teams of employees from Widener Library will tangle on the House football field this afternoon at 2:15 o'clock...
...other hand, Dorothy Lamour as an orientalized American is distinctly wooden--not only in her acting but in her attempt at speaking English with an accent. It seems that Paramount has taught her some Chinese for the picture; for those who are interested, it can be understood, but it recks of Brooklyn...