Word: attempts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...This work is being done regardless of the number of ships, submarines, or destroyers that any other country has. Our attempt is to create a well-balanced fleet," the Secretary said...
...been most gratifying to witness the increasing interchange of university professors and the constantly growing stream of student migration from one country to another. . . . It is not desirable that we should attempt to be all alike. . . . We should all be intent on maintaining our own institutions and customs, preserving the purity of our own language and literature, fostering the ideals of our own culture and society. In a territory reaching from the north temperate zone?? through the tropics to the South Pole, there is room enough for every worthy activity which is profitable and every ideal which is good...
...concede to the Roman Pontiff a certain priority but they claim it is derived, not from divine right, but from the opinion of the majority of the faithful. They declare themselves ready to negotiate with the Roman Church . . . on a basis of equality. . . . How could she tolerate an iniquitous attempt to drag the truth?divinely revealed truth?into a compromise? . . . If we admit this possibility, we must also say that the descent of the Holy Ghost on the apostles, that the permanence of the Holy Ghost in the Church, and even the teaching of Jesus Christ, lost all influence...
...chief difficulty that occurs in trying to pass judgement on "A President is Born", is that it is an unusual attempt and that it is carried out in a very unique fashion. With an objective such as it has, it is difficult to see how any book could be made really compelling and not appear forced; certainly this attempt falls short. As a story it is interesting, vivid and effective, but one feels that it should be infinitely more so. Its chief fault is that it is unnatural...
...ground covered, but these other tracks flow gently on through vague words of pleasant connotation, rather impressively indeed. And unprovoked to thought, the reader can wander after them through a haze of prettily blurred pictures. This is no solemn warning however, for the method is used only in the attempt to be deceptively impressive, and it is doubtful if earnest writers, or weary printers, or impatient readers, will long be bothered with...