Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...student, William K. Beatty '50, had previously swallowed the contents of a bottle of iodine, according to doctors who first treated him at 10:30 a.m. at Cambridge City Hospital. They termed the incident a suicide attempt...
Provost Buck's recent statement that the oaths are not University matters was a direct attempt to sidestep the issue and avoid making a decision, Bluestone maintained...
This makes the loyalty oath an attempt by the government to intimidate students, because they will be afraid to partake in liberal activities for fear of being reported, Bailey said...
...seen a performance that was astonishingly close to perfection, and had witnessed the first successful attempt in years to return elegance and the classical spirit to the Western ballet. Both had been brought to the U.S. by England's Sadler's Wells Ballet. With its gifts, Sadler's Wells had also brought Margot Fonteyn, its prima ballerina, a dancer fit to be ranked with the alltime greats...
...Touch That Soup! The murder went so quietly that the slaves decided to rob the old lady, too. While they were getting into her trunks, she revived. The second attempt was more thorough, left traces. It also terrified the few white people at Mulberry. When their maids offered to sleep in the same room, to protect them, the women were even more terrified. When they sat down to dinner, old Mrs. Chesnut cried: "I warn you! Don't touch that soup! It is bitter. There is something wrong about it." As it happened, the soup was all right...