Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hoped that by creating such courses the General Education program will be able to draw the active interest and participation of many of the University's most talented scientists, who would not be very enthusiastic about teaching a survey course but would like to attempt to explain some aspect of their field to interested undergraduates...
Next week the wrestlers will attempt to continue their winning way against Pennsylvania, here...
...With the high jump bar set at 7 ft., Boston University Freshman John Thomas (TIME, Feb. 2) missed his first attempt but sailed cleanly across on the second try. beating U.S. Outdoor Champion Charlie Dumas (first man ever to jump 7 ft.) and smashing his own world's indoor record for the second time in three weeks, at New York's 52nd annual Millrose Games...
...Journey (Alby; MGM) takes the road that is rutted with good intentions. The film was apparently planned, in a soft-headed way, as an effort to find a silver lining in the Iron Curtain. As it has turned out, it seems no more than an unfeeling attempt to make a little money. The hero of the story is a soulful Russian major (Yul Brynner) who commands a border garrison during the 1956 Hungarian rebellion and the ensuing slaughter. He detains a busload of foreigners who are trying to leave the country, because he suspects that some of them may really...
...Sheriff of Fractured Jaw. Jayne Mansfield has such trouble speaking English that some customers may holler for subtitles, but Kenneth More manages to say wahoo with a sly British accent in this fairly successful attempt to put a satiric rein on the Hollywood horse opera. The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad. A genie, Cyclops and a floppy dragon conspiring against human types in a fine, sometimes frightening film for the kiddy...