Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Indian tea. Increasing competition from Japan has prevented any significant increase in foreign sales of Indian cotton goods. The jute industry, faced with competition from Indonesia and Pakistan, is so deep in the doldrums that more than 10% of India's looms are being held idle in an attempt to maintain world jute prices...
Crimson coach Floyd Wilson stated yesterday that the varsity's early season performance had exceeded his expectations. The varsity opened its season Monday night by routing the University of Massachusetts, 84 to 58, and fought off a comeback attempt by Bowdoin College Wednesday...
...vast headline which declared, "KILLIAN APPOINTED MISSILES CZAR." While Killian is an adviser of some sort, he is certainly not a missile czar. Nor, for that matter, is William Holaday, special assistant on guided missiles to the Secretary of Defense, a missile-czar. At best, Holaday represents an attempt to cut down on bureaucracy by adding another bureau-crat. Neither he nor Killian can do anything more than advise the already over-advised men who created the present system of rivalries, inefficiencies, and unnecessary secrecies...
...seems confined by any lyric more tender than The Wreck of the 97. This is a pity, because it means he must be either cut off from a great body of relatively sedate folk songs, or perform them somewhat below the level of their potential. Seeger generally choses to attempt them, but he is a complete success only so long as he keeps the joint jumping...
...House system, while deemphasizing the martini, is an attempt to create an academic community for the undergraduate. Except for tutors, however, the opportunities which this system tries to offer hardly exist for many graduate students, who are isolated from the University by distance. Even worse than this is the loss which occurs when many students--apprised of the housing situation--are dissuaded from coming to Harvard...