Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Because of this development--and despite the inevitable variation in college standards--the attempt to grant a multitude of degrees in higher education should not be disparaged. College is increasingly an economic necessity and should be within each of anyone who merits...
Last week, after being suspended for this wordless protest, Raya was allowed to publish again on condition that it make no attempt to tell readers why it had been banned. By contrast with Keng Po, Indonesia's biggest paper (56,000), which in five months has not run a single editorial, Raya vowed an editorial last week: "We'll continue to fight for truth in so far as it is possible...
Unhappily, in the attempt to do so, Carson McCullers' brilliant individuality and special feeling for life have been clouded and blurred. Aided by a sensitive production, The Member of the Wedding was a successful mood play. With a much less helpful production, Square Root is all clash of moods. Though plainly the object is to deplore complicated neurotic love, the wrecked marriage is treated too realistically for a play with so special an angle of vision. Again, though the object is to exalt simple feeling, the love story is so romantically colorless as to leave no angle of vision...
Some cynics professed to see in the merger proposal a dramatic attempt to get the railroads' case for higher rates and other changes before the public, but the move was nonetheless a good indication of the unhealthy state of the two roads involved. Many other U.S. railroads are doing well financially (see box), but they are not afflicted with the peculiar problems of the Central and Pennsy: short-haul runs that require numerous stations and facilities and heavy and unprofitable commuter loads in populous big-city areas...
Putzi's book, probably his last attempt to capitalize on his career as Naziism's foremost political pianist, often reads like an edition of Munich Confidential. Politically and morally, it has the usual 20-20 hindsight. Its value for future historians will lie mostly in the gossipy anecdotes that show Hitler in his moments of off-platform relaxation-some of them very comic, as when Adolf, after the failure of the beer hall Putsch, threatens to commit suicide, but allows himself to be easily disarmed by Hanfstaengl's pregnant wife...