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Word: attempts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...these details are incidental to the performance offered by Ed Wynn himself. He dominates the evening completely, and in a manner to suit the most exacting. To attempt to describe this gentleman's humor would be suicidal; he must be seen and heard to be appreciated, but he certainly cannot be recommended too strongly. There is doubtless no comedian on the American stage at the present day who has a more natural and universal appeal than Ed Wynn. Little more can or need be said about...

Author: By P. C. S., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 2/27/1929 | See Source »

...experiment adopted by the directors of the Fogg Museum in loaning pictures to students who wish to use them in decorating their rooms is in the nature of an attempt to popularize fine arts. Coming as it does close on the heels of the opening of the first exhibit of the Harvard Society for Contemporaneous Art, it is an encouraging sign to those who hope for more knowledge of the beauties of art among students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PICTURE AHEAD | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

...made before long to reach an agreement between the principal naval powers of the world for the limitation of naval armaments. As long as that bill was under discussion any proposal to renew conversations on this vital subject might have been interpreted in the U. S. as an attempt to interfere with the passage of the bill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Sir Esme & Sir Austen | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

...corner had been established in Piggly Wiggly and took the stock off the board. With trading suspended, there was no market, no quotation on Mr. Saunders' stock. Mr. Saunders discovered that Wall Street has a cemetery at one end and a river at the other. After an unsuccessful attempt to unload his Piggly Wiggly stock, an attempt featured by a full page newspaper advertisement entitled "Fighting for My Life," Mr. Saunders turned over a fortune estimated at nine million dollars to the bankers who had financed his disastrous corner, and got out of Piggly Wiggly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Piggly Wiggly Man | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

...Louis, Mo., February 20--Speaking before a large gathering of interested Harvard men at the Harvard Club here tonight, Professor Julian L. Coolidge, recently appointed master of the first Harvard House discussed the aspects of the new educational departure that Harvard will attempt to put into operation in the near future...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Coolidge Explains House Plan to Graduates in Speech In St. Louis---Emphasizes Social Benefits to be Derived | 2/21/1929 | See Source »

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