Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Editors of TIME believe in the U. S. tradition of celebrating a birthday by doing a good day's work. Thus the 782nd issue of TIME, like the first, is dedicated solely to an attempt to keep intelligent people well informed. But even working editors cannot be wholly unconscious of anniversaries, and TIME'S have chosen to celebrate by printing their first story about themselves. To get it on paper, the Editors asked one of their oldest members to turn historian...
...last week-as secretively as they had arrived in the U. S. two weeks before-sailed the Earl of Dudley and a committee representing Europe's Steel Cartel. Though no one admitted it, everybody knew that the Earl and his friends had visited the U. S. in an attempt to get U. S. steel companies to join the cartel or at least to stop undercutting its prices abroad (TIME, Feb. 14). Last week no one in authority would yet admit that anything had happened, but the Earl's speedy departure indicated that an understanding had been reached. Only...
Joseph A. Langone, Boston undertaker, who last year cast the crucial ballot in the senate's 21-19 decision to send the bill to Governor Hurley, again voted for the abolishment of the Oath law, An Attempt to suspend the rules and prevent the third reading failed...
McNulty, "Tiger" McKeever, "Snowshoes" Keegan, "Scoop" Murphy (southpaw), O'Hearn and the great "Knuckles" Morrissey himself will also attempt to show that their victory over T. D. was just a pace-setter for the Harvard clash...
...Harvard makes the sport a major, it is quite certain that Captain Macionis will attempt to get similar action for recognition at Yale. This in effect would seem to join the two universities in the plea. Coach Kiphuth has refused to comment on the matter...