Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time the 'Punies were disengaged, the CRIMSON shell, dodging between the obstructive wherries which 'Poon editors rowed in its path, shot under the Weeks Memorial footbridge. In a final, desperate attempt more 'Punie hopefuls hurled sacks of flour and a rubber dinghy after it. But it was no use, for upping the stroke to a climatic 48, the Crimeds stretched to a racing finish and crossed the line as cheers echoed across the river
...Reider's two-mile mark with an outstanding 9:08.5 clocking. He also took 11.4 seconds off his best previous mile time with a 4:15.6 effort. Princeton's Charlie Hudson and Frank Gutmann, and probably the Crimson's Jed Fitzgerald will be Benjamin's opponents in his record attempt...
...final attempt to salvage its opening season, Repertory Boston, Inc., has appealed to "sympathetic members of the Boston theatre-going public" to pledge financial support in the amount of $50,000. This sum would be necessary to maintain operations for the rest of Repertory's season...
...attempt is unsuccessful, the group has enough funds available to make refunds on all advance ticket sales and on season tickets. Contributions will be tax-deductible, subject to government approval, and should be mailed to the Wilbur Theatre, Tremont St., Boston...
...valuable. But his seriousness never declines into solemnity; his awareness of the social significance of the stage is leavened by wit (he is a punster as well as a pundit), and by an understanding that dramatic criticism, is not merely a department of literary criticism, but something unique: an attempt "to give a permanent form to something impermanent. That," he says, "was certainly the impulse that pushed me into dramatic criticism--the impulse to be an eyewitness for posterity...the analytic thing comes afterward...