Word: attempting
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Passed (381-20) by the House of Representatives and sent to the Senate last week: a four-year extension of the military draft, strongly backed by the Eisenhower Administration and the House Democratic and Republican leadership. A serious attempt to limit the extension to two years was made by Iowa's freshman Democrat Leonard Wolf, 33, backed by a large group of young Congressmen, including many first-termers. A voice vote was taken on Wolf's two-year amendment and declared lost. But it was more than close enough to call for a standing vote-which Democrat Wolf...
...maintained, the next round of allotments will certainly become a grand farce. One president of a small college threatened last week to ask for $.5 million in order to get what he needs. Realizing that the funds it receives will be mathematically proportionate to its request, each college will attempt to outbid the others. The request system will cease to be merely unfair; it will become absurd...
With the influx of 2000 girls, Hanover, N.H., temporarily loses its celibate atmosphere and begins its most strenuous attempt to live up to its fun-loving reputation. Contrary to popular rumor in the girls' school circuit, Dartmouth men are not exceptionally big drinkers or "wah-hoo-wah." Although the liquor flows from twelve noon till four a.m. (the administration prohibits drinking at any other time), Dartmouth men "can hold their liquor mighty well." Alcohol is a weekend staple...
Because of a breakdown in Trinity's electrical scoring device, touches had to be determined by chalk marks, a long and laborious process. In an attempt to expedite proceedings, three touches instead of the usual five were worth a point...
...recent report by the Committee on Science in General Education represents an another unsuccessful attempt to clarify the role of science in a college curriculum, and by implication in the more general body of educated men. It is unsuccessful because it does not seem willing to admit the unusual characteristics which surround science as an intellectual discipline...