Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...attempt to uncover the facts about that seasonal immigrant called the Summer School student, the Summer News will soon distribute a questionaire at the Union calculated to discover exactly what makes the Summer student...
...suspension, imposed by the stewards for his driving in an earlier Roosevelt race. Miller had pulled back at the halfway mark, presumably to find a hole along the rail. There was no hole. He came in last, was promptly set down for driving "in a manner inconsistent with an attempt...
...life, Felice Orsini was one of Europe's most wanted men, trailing from country to country, spying, mounting fantastic plots and making sporadic forays into his homeland. In London, where he was rapturously welcomed, Orsini let his vanity drive him to his last, most hare-brained exploit-an attempt on the life of France's Emperor Napoleon III. It was a crazy choice, because the Emperor had declared himself ready to fight for the cause of Italian independence. But, Orsini argued, if only Napoleon were removed, all other thrones in Europe would topple...
Although the play is often presented, rarely is a production seen with the obvious craftsmanship and creativity of the present one. Director Basil Langton has fully realized the author's attempt to give flesh to a social abstraction and on the other hand to give eloquence and stature to flesh that is at times all too solid. The author seems to ask, when and how can the sons of the men who carved a country out of the frontier with the strength of their hands adjust to the business suit and all the other impersonal appurtenances of a white collar...
...studying" Alan Wood's move: so were Bethlehem Steel, Youngstown Sheet & Tube, Armco Steel and Jones & Laughlin, which added that it would not raise prices until U.S. Steel took the lead. Said Big Steel's Chairman Roger M. Blough: "Our immediate conclusion is not to attempt to change our prices until the situation is clarified." When that might be, added Blough: "We cannot forecast." But for years, steel prices have climbed, along with boosts in minimum wages (see chart), cost-of-living allowances and other costs...