Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Also in the fall of 1931 the nation had begun to take the depression seriously, despite the cheerful optimism of the Great Engineer. The Student Council, in an attempt to raise money for the unemployed, sponsored a series of collections at home football games. The $7,000 collected at the Holy Cross game exceeded by $1,000 the amount collected at the Dartmouth game, and when Yale bounced into town to hand the Crimson its only loss of the season in a close 0-3 game the fans donated nearly...
Pennypacker's name will be affixed to the College's newest attempt to relieve Freshman crowding and reduce the number of "forced commuters"-students accepted on condition that they live outside the College. The dormitory is the old Roosevelt Apartments, on the corner of Ware and Harvard Streets, adjoining fellow apartment-dormitories Hurl-but, Greenough, and 8 Prescott Street...
Should a failure of my attempt show that I made a mistake . . . the only road open to me would be to transfer immediately all my powers to the president of the National Assembly...
...last message the Canadian sent. Minutes later the walkie-talkie man gasped that Colonel Flint had been hit, and lay unmoving on the slope. Although no more than 20 paces away, U. N. observers radioed that the fire was too heavy to permit any rescue attempt. Hours later, under cover of darkness, they found Colonel Flint's body, and near by the bodies of four Israeli police...
Dunster House friends of Dowling had donated blood in an attempt to arrest the disease which struck him during the last Spring Weekend. In all, 20 members of the House responded to a plea by the University Health Service for blood for transfusions...