Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...added that it would also require vesting all power over education in state rather than in local school boards, and a change in labor's attitude towards apprentice training. He asserted that it would be easier to improve the present educational system than attempt to replace...
...John G. Fowlkes, Professor of Education at the University of Wisconsin, ended the conference with his speech, "Now for Action." He attacked the attempt to "sell" schools to the public in order to raise more funds, and stated that if the public were truly informed of the needs of the public high schools educators would encounter no problems in raising the necessary funds...
...Tanner never seems committed to his ideas with any great intensity of the "moral passion" he talks about. It becomes a matter of little significance that the revolutionary activities of this Tanner should be circumscribed by marriage. (His air of frivolity vanishes during the hell scene, but here his attempt at the aristocratic chill becoming to Don Juan degenerates sometimes into mere posturing...
...weakness for "steak, liquor, and sex--in that order," Frederick Morehouse is at his best with a sarcastic line or a subtle piece of business. When he orders his steak ("blood rare") or mixes a martini he brings the house down. However, his voice frequently becomes strident in an attempt to capture the English accent and he underplays perhaps too much...
...Dogs probably developed only recently the art of barking, which is essentially an attempt to imitate human speech...