Word: attempting
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...cure for contemporary troubles would therefore hardly appear to lie in an attempt to revivify the Bible or reanimate the Christian revelation. The Christian heritage proved incapable of answering Bacon and Diderot. And while these men failed to provide a lasting alternative, they defined the work of any future religion. No future synthesis can simply ignore the problems raised by empirical science or temporal Utopianism. It must incorporate these elements into a new vision, making its Revelation relevant to contemporary dilemmas...
...Repetto will attempt to maintain his mastery over Yale's Eastern Inter-collegiate Baseball League champions this afternoon on Soldiers Field...
...those interested in golf, the Essex fairways were open to the Class of '32, and driving and putting contests were held behind the clubhouse, while inside the clubhouse a few square dancing enthusiasts bounced around the floor in a futile attempt to arouse a larger amount of participation from their fellow classmates...
Some of the Supreme Court's language gave color to the idea that the court was reaching beyond a rule of law in an attempt to set a pattern of social behavior. The majority opinion, written by Justice John Marshall Harlan, favorably quoted Harvard Law Dean Erwin Griswold, a leading advocate of the anything-goes school of Fifth Amendment pleading. And a concurring opinion by Justice Hugo Black (with Chief Justice Earl Warren and Justices William Douglas and William J. Brennan) argued that the use of the Fifth Amendment should neither "discredit" nor "convict" any person...
...impact it might have had with the general public. On the other hand, the fund-supported Bibliography of the Communist Problem in the United States, compiled by Cornell Historian Clinton Rossiter, Georgetown Law Professor Joseph Snee, S.J. and Harvard Law Professor Arthur Sutherland, was a valiant if incomplete attempt to do a much-needed job. The investigation of security procedures and firings, made under the auspices of the New York City bar association, cast a frightening Orwellian light on the abuses committed in the name of security...