Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...attempt to follow a second Council suggestion, that students from other colleges be excluded from Lamont, librarians have been looking for "non-Ivy book covers and strange characters...
Speaking as a Cambridge citizen, the attorney added that he felt the decision would help University relations with residents of the town, since it indicates that Harvard is making an attempt to alleviate the parking problem...
Conant's concept of the ideal school is not an attempt to segregate students according to ability. All students would share the same homerooms and lunch hours, and would be allowed to take some courses in an upper or lower level...
Eight or ten men will be added to the night patrol force in an attempt to "hit the entire area every night," according to police officials. The "area" involved is bordered by the Charles River, Boylston St., Cambridge St., Trowbridge St., and Putnam...
...difficulty keeping his pipe lit, and interrupted his reflections long enough to make another attempt. "The Communists recognized the danger of Fascism, and 3000 Americans, most of them Communists, volunteered for the International Brigade to fight in Spain. There were other people in these movements, but at times it seemed the Communists were alone." The expression of loneliness he wore on his face as he spoke was striking. His whole life had been confined to association with a few intensely dedicated people, and now he longed to enter the world of the apathetic masses, the people who had somehow been...