Word: attempts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since the opening of the basketball season two weeks ago the squad has been gradually increasing. Coach E. A. Wachter has been featuring passing, ball handling, and footwork. All the practice has been with teams divided as evenly as possible, and no attempt has been made to form a first string lineup...
...Cercle Francais has decided to attempt a unique experiment in the presentation of "Les Precieuses Ridicules" by Moliere in modern dress and with a modernistic setting, it was announced yesterday. This is the first time that the French comedy has been so produced, and an effort has been made to change the lines of the play as little as possible to make them fit in with the new setting...
...first newspaper ever printed in this country met the same fate dealt the first gesture towards press censorship and the first attempt to set up a commercial printing shop: "Publick Occurrances both Foreign and Domestick," appeared on September 26, 1690, and was immediately forbidden from the Colonies. The Governor and council gave expression to "high resentment and disallowance" to this paper printed by Richard Pierce for Benjamin Harris of Boston, and forbade anyone "for the future to set forth anything in print without license first obtained...
...that his Puritan forebears had a good time. For three centuries the last Thursday in November has seen New England asceticism buried under a pile of stuffed fowl and mince pies in such quantities as to flout the good taste of a Roman Emperor. Frigid godliness in its one attempt to appear human sank for a brief holiday a bit below the line that divides hunger from voracity, and this annual fall from grace has left its mark upon a more moderate posterity. For those who find a vestigeal interest in the intellectual slowly reviving this morning, the following lectures...
...attempt to foster a closer contact between undergraduates and the Phillips Brooks House, the Cabinet of the P. B. H. is planning a Harvard conference to be held at Cedar Hill, Waltham, on Saturday and Sunday, December 8 and 9. All members of the Phillips Brooks House and a selected body of undergraduates will be present for the speeches and discussion of the meeting...