Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...affiliations and in the democratic spirit that made Al Smith an American reality, the two gentlemen said that were soliciting for contributions to the Harry T. Levin Ping-Pong Ball endowment, which, as is well known by now, ensures that no Harvardman need ever go without. How can I attempt to explain the fullness of heart I felt, the soaring elation, indeed the titillation? In the pleasure of pledging my dollars, I smiled all over that...
Dessie, Ethiopia Four Horsemen Sir: The identification of the first two Horse men in Revelations seems so obvious that I am amazed at ex-President Hoover's attempt [TIME, Sept. 29] to make the second Horse man stand for Revolution. On a red horse, with a great sword, he takes "peace from the earth"and makes men "kill one another...
...reported New China News Agency, peasants "marked the occasion with revelry that included singing, dancing, and decorating their houses with lamps." In Kiangsi province they beat drums and gongs and shot off firecrackers. Cause of all this merriment: formation of two new "people's communes"-the most determined attempt yet to reduce human beings to the status of ants...
...this time, the H.A.A. should have made a more effectual attempt to find a permanent coach. Although Joe Brown was an exception, very few graduate students are qualified as crew coaches, and willing to stay on the water until 7:30 p.m. each day for the salary of a part-time teaching fellow...
...fact, says Arp, Dada was dedicated art: "My gouaches, reliefs, plastics were an attempt to teach man what he had forgotten-to dream with his eyes open." Using a jig saw, he made inexpensive wood reliefs around such motifs as forks and mustaches (a favorite theme he has found laughable ever since he watched German soldiers primping for the Kaiser's birthday). Discovering that the laws of chance underlie much in nature, Arp turned out a series of paste-ups produced by letting bits of paper float down upon a glue-coated board. Later he meticulously executed paper cutouts...