Word: attempts
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...more Freshman eights were sent out from the Newell, but the men who were out on Saturday rowed on the machines yesterday. It is hard to form an estimate of this year's Freshmen until they have all been on the water, and for this reason no attempt has been made to grade them at either the Weld or Newell. The Weld Sophomores rowed yesterday in the tank and then went on the river in pairs. Both the Sophomore and Freshman crews at the Weld will go out in eights today...
After the period of the Danish invasion, learning among the West Saxons had almost entirely disappeared, and the greatest works of the time were written in a language which the majority of the people barely understood. In an attempt to decrease this evil and make it possible for the common people to have the benefit of the greatest books and best literary production of the time, King Alfred began two distinct tasks. He wished first, to restore the lost learning; and secondly, to put the great books of the world into the mother tongue of his people. The actual work...
...corrupt police force, and terrorized by a band of ruthless anarchists. These conspirators, incensed by one of the king's proclamations, decide to put an end to him. The assassin is chosen by lot, and turns out to be Nitro, the leader of the band. Meanwhile Della Croca, while attempting to coerce his daughter, Trivia, into a mercenary marriage, forces her by his violence to run away and join her lover, the secretary of the Dynamiters. These are confident of the success of their conspiracy. But the failure of Nitro's attempt to blow up the king breaks up their...
...pump was removed is not very clear. The pump was not blown to atoms as reported in the newspapers; the damage was comparatively slight, and could have been easily repaired. We suppose, therefore, that the College authorities removed the pump as a matter of discipline. Granting that the attempt on the pump was a malicious one, the removal is hardly a punishment to the perpetrators. It is only causing very great inconvenience to those rooming in the yard, and others, who deprecate the attempt as much as the college authorities. We think therefore that it would be only fair...
...keen zest for romantic adventure, a keen curiosity concerning the lives and characters of men, and, above all, a sensitive appreciation of the romantic in scenery and history. The one weakness in his work arose from the way in which he learned to write. It was his habit to attempt to copy as best he could the striking passages in whatever he chanced to read, and, while this practice gave him a great command of diction, it also tended to destroy the individuality of his work. He played the "diligent ape" too long...