Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Attempting a two pronged attack with the idea of saving both money and food for Europe, the Council ground to an early halt on the solid, rock of Mr. Aldrich Durant '02, Business Manager. Mr. Durant shield understandably when presented with a plan to save 2000 1bs. of wheat per week and send the resultant money saving to Europe in the form the C.A.R.E. packages. Negotiation, followed by more negotiation produced nothing more definite than a nebulous idea that while food could be saved, the University's dining halls were operating at a tremendous deficit and any attempt to save...
...revised plan, currently touring the Council circuit, calls for a large reduction of University wheat consumption, the amount to be released for government use, and the money thus saved handed over to the dining halls for application to a non-existent debt. The management also guarantees an attempt to improve the quality of the food. Based on inaccurate information, the present Student Council program seems little short of idiotic...
Track coach Jaako Mikkola likes Freshman, particularly if they can high jump six feet or run the hundred in ten flat. At the opening winter track meeting this Tuesday evening at 7:30 o'clock in the Varsity Club, he will attempt to coax as many of them as possible into the Crimson fold. All Varsity candidates are invited to be on hand...
Chase put his charges through an intensive three-hour scrimmage, employing everyone at least once in an attempt to sort wheat from chaff before the first squad cut on Friday. He would hazard no predictions at practice and, noting only that the team was in far better shape than it was a year ago. But he tempered even this optimism with the statement that "They'd better be; they face the longest, toughest schedule in Crimson history...
...well-known hospitality of your letters column to all political points of view will, I am sure, extend to this brief attempt to answer the letter of Mrs. Virginia Jones in your November 14th issue...