Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...entertainment and the spread of good music. The orchestra under Arthur Fiedler is invariably good, and although there are special programs on special nights, each performance runs the gamut from classic to modern. Harvard football songs are occasional encores, and dance music is presented now and again, although no attempt is made to compete with Mr. Goodman, now on the Ritz Roof...
Observers agree that the Reich will attempt to unsnarl her tangle by selling more abroad, particularly to Great Britain, but British financial interests, which stand to lose most on the Austrian loans, are unlikely to accept such a solution until the loans are settled. Britain holds an ax over the Reich because she can deduct German debts from the money Britons owe German exporters. Last week, the potent Association of British Chambers of Commerce urged that the exchange clearing bill, passed in 1934 but never implemented, be enforced. But as such a move would blight Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain...
...haired Donald Budge of Oakland, Calif.: the French hard-court tennis championship; in his first attempt; trouncing Czech Roderich Menzel in the final, 6-3, 6-2, 6-4; at Auteuil. Champion of the U. S., England, Australia and France, Budge at 23 is the first tennist in history to hold the "Big Four" titles at one time. Australia's Jack Crawford and England's Fred Perry each held three simultaneously, never could capture the fourth...
Three stories attempt more complex situations. In the subtlest of these. Return to Lavinia, a storekeeper returns from his honeymoon with a schoolteacher, reassures his mulatto housekeeper that she will always come first...
Unfortunately Eddie Ingalis, who was in the box for the Crimson that day, will be unable to pitch and attempt to even the count, having been injured in Saturday's game with California. Coach Fred Mitchell is relying on John Mahoney, slow-ball baffler, to do the twirling. The backstop question is still undecided...