Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lapel, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, down for seven days with an intestinal inflammation (see MEDICINE), left Walter Reed hospital and drove to the White House to confer with President Eisenhower about Berlin. From that conference came perhaps the hardest U.S. talk yet about Nikita Khrushchev's attempt to shout his way into control of Germany...
What Captain Cutter probably objects to most of all is the recent spurt of "alumni recruiting" in the Ivy League, a facet of alumni activity which, by virtue of its unfortunate label, suggests an attempt to hustle unsuspecting lummocks into football uniforms before they or their parents realize what has happened...
With the final decision on non-Honors tutorial postponed until next fall, the Masters and Department heads can now attempt to resolve conflicting views into the beginnings of a creative policy. The difficulty, in this period when no one knows how the CEP proposals will work out, is in guessing whether or not a given department will use the spring qualifying exam to make honors more restrictive or more inclusive. No one can yet say how many non-Honors juniors there will be in a given field in a certain House...
...undefeated varsity squash team will attempt to extend its winning streak to three straight this afternoon at 4:15 p.m. when it meets M.I.T. on the Engineers' eourt. M.I.T. is not expected to provide much opposition for the Crimson, since it was shut out 9-0 by Army in its last outing...
Reading the cases, we easily tend to be cynical and dismiss the entire thing as a maudlin attempt to cash in on our sympathy, so generous and outgoing at Christmas time. Some readers, of course, might be moved to send in a few dollars to help Mrs. Bella H., 85, obtain the guidance she needs...