Word: attempts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...onetime Navy aircraft engineer" (Holden Chester Richardson) was, in fact, a Captain in the Navy, Chief of the Material Division, Bureau of Aeronautics, U. S. Navy Department, and responsible for all Naval aircraft design: one of the designers of the NC seaplanes used in the first trans-Atlantic flight attempt, land pilot of the NC3 on that flight; largely responsible for the catapults which put aviation into the Fleet; and recognized as the foremost international authority on the design of seaplane floats and flying boat hulls. That he is not "the Chief Designer," but is employed in the capacity...
...investor in many companies but as manager of none, such a position would certainly be statistically sound. The fact that so powerful a financial institution has become actively interested in utilities may be disconcerting to opponents of privately controlled light and power systems. But only a cartoonist could attempt to personify Mr. Morgan as Big Utility Goblin...
...Aluminum Co. (Mellon), General Electric and the du Ponts. One asset of Frontier Corp. is a waterpower site at Long Sault, on the St. Lawrence. Frontier Corp. prepared to develop this site two years ago, was blocked by Governor Alfred E. Smith. It may now make a new attempt, or may postpone operations until after Jan. i, 1931, in the hope that Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt will be succeeded by a Republican executive more sympathetic to superpower development...
From Columbia's muliebral Barnard College last fortnight issued the annual report of famed Dean Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve. In part, she observed that it is "practically impossible for all except a very few unusual young women to attempt working their way for four years without serious injury to their health or academic standing or both. ... I have in mind an able and interesting girl who hitchhiked across country from the Pacific Coast a few years ago and started to work her way through Barnard. In spite of our efforts to aid her the strain had produced, by the time...
...what is generally considered the most powerful Harvard line in recent years. The only weak point in his performances was to be found in his snapping back which gradually improved as the season wore on. This fault was quite natural inasmuch as last season was Ticknor's first attempt at snapping back. His previous experience has been in the backfield a position from which he captained his Freshman eleven. It was his outstanding ability at backing up the line defensively that led the coaches last fall to believe that he would make a good center and their judgment was soon...