Word: attempts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Further complicating the nuptials is Sir Tukoji's notorious reputation as the ruler who sent agents to maim and attempt to kill his chief dancing girl Mumtaz Begum. Because of this deed he was deposed as Maharaja of Indore...
Before entering the diplomatic service, Mr. Moore was engaged for many years in newspaper work with considerable success, and he is well qualified to make this attempt to redeem the tabloid. But the chief reason for the remarkable growth of the tabloid press to the point where some one of its members has the largest circulation in most of our large cities is the fact that they appeal to a class of readers that the orthodox papers did not touch. This was due to the fact that they did feature the type of news which this additional body of readers...
...appear seated at a table the youthful Faust and the youthful Mephistopheles, the latter a leader in all the conscienceless episodes of the story to follow. Thus it is made reasonable to regard what happens as a vision to be entertained by a scholar himself. By these means the attempt is made to restore to Gounod's musical classic a dramatic illusion in story that will appeal to the intelligence and will also serve to incorporate, with the music a rational source from which that music may be seen to derive...
...have tended to scatter the student units and at the present moment there is great fear of a loss of vital "organic unity". And finally comes the over-population of the college which is not only unfavourable to social values but which makes it impossible for the university to attempt freer and more generous educational experimentation. Briefly, this is the problem which has since 1914, when the creation of a Third College to stand parallel with Yale College and the Sheffield Scientific School was first broached, occupied a more and more prominent position in the consideration of all those connected...
...Whereas, the attempt at prohibition as embodied in the Volstead Act has hampered the medical profession, corrupted politics and made the underworld semi-respectable, thereby setting bad examples to the young who are receiving their training character; therefore...