Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last night--in a peaceful Vermont valley--the police society destroyed the greatest attempt ever to symbolize Harvard-Radcliffe unity. The Kampus Kuties' arrest by the so-called forces of law and order proves that an authoritarian regime will take all possible steps to keep Harvard and Radcliffe separate and unequal. In behalf of that majority of the Radcliffe student body which wanted to lead cheers at Harvard, this newspaper must protest...
...have returned circle to her present condition. Thus the cyclical calendar is being replaced, of necessity, by a chronological (which is not synonymous with cyclical, as your article so erroneously implies), dated Anno Domini, as the scientific world civilization overtakes India. Perhaps this fact is symbolic; the lectures will attempt to show that...
...following article is offered to both these worlds. To the people who care strongly for the Clubs, it is offered not in hopes that they will stop caring, but as an attempt to describe some of the problems and practical difficulties confronting their Clubs today. And to those who do not care, it is offered not because they ought to care, but because Harvard's Final Clubs represent a fascinating and probably unique attempt to preserve, in an American college, the standards of "gracious living" and a slowly withering "aristocracy...
...first Five Year Plan was succeeding. Although India's development has been mainly government run, many civil officials credit the Church with having "showed them how." Among the more interesting reforms the United Church has supported is an educational pilot project involving sociologists, technicians, and village residents. They will attempt to shape industry around village requirements and, if successful, should be able to work out an alternative to the construction of large, central factories...
Contrary to some popular belief, there is an operating Christian Church in China. But there has been a great breach between the missions of the China mainland and the West. Newbigin hoped that an attempt will be made to heal this breach, rather than to send more missionaries from the West to impress Western viewpoints upon China...