Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...campaign, ninth in a current series, netted close to $50,000 more than the best previous attempt and gathered funds from 45 per cent of the alumni. Non-alumni contributions amounted to nearly $60,000 and raised the average gift in the campaign from...
...project will first attempt to discover the effects of volunteer workers upon mental hospital patients. A professional psychologist has investigated individual patients; he will make a re-evaluation at the end of the year to discover the volunteers' effect upon patients. In this "case aid" part of the PBH program, a volunteer works directly with a single patient...
...Communists spent well over $100 million this past summer in their global attempt to create, and win, a new social class of "Youth." The World Youth Festival did not succeed in this, however, for as a propaganda instrument it was blunted by the independent efforts of Western student groups, and in particular by American participants working within the Festival. But the Soviet did not fail with all of the 20,000 "youth" who arrived in Vienna for 10 days of rallies, cultural events, slogans, and seminars...
...objections to the loyalty oath provisions--particularly to the disclaimer affidavit--have been made clear time and again; they warrant only quick review now. The affidavit is obnoxious because it is a vaguely worded attempt to assure conformity to an officially "safe" norm of belief; because it singles out the academic community for suspicion of disloyalty and requires that students, unlike any other class of people, must reaffirm in writing that they are loyal; because it constitutes a dangerous Chauvinist precedent for any future federal aid to education acts; because, finally, it alienates the loyal while failing to protect...
...finally took over on its own 24 for a desperation attempt to score. Dave McKelvey, a second string quarterback who had been outstanding all day, rolled out to his right looking for a receiver. Eighteen yards downfield was fullback Phil Taylor, hemmed in between two Crimson backs...