Word: attempts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...report of O. A. Schlaikjer '31, concerning the latest N.S.F.A. conference, held in Nebraska during the past vacation, holds out much hope for eventual success for the efforts of the Federation. In its attempt to arouse interest about college-problems considerable progress, according to the report, has already been shown. True, some of the delegates were inclined to evince discouragement even in this, the most elementary part of the program, but on the whole the attitude of the representatives was one of optimism. As to the other points, concern for national problems and international peace, the reports of achievement...
Signer Benito Mussolini abandoned, last week, his most heroic financial policy: the attempt to increase the value of Italian paper money until it should stand at par (TIME, Sept. 13, 1926 et seq.). Admission that this policy is impracticable was shrewdly avoided by Il Duce up to last week, when he found a way to mask failure behind a dazzling cabinet decree. This document, issued with a triumphal flourish, establishes the lira on a gold basis? not, however, at par (five lira to the dollar), but at 19 to the dollar, the new ratio being slightly lower than the ordinary...
...useless to attempt to drive the fire trucks from Fort Smith to Subiaco. The distance is 50 miles and the roads bad. A five-mile stretch ust west of Paris was impossible. So the firemen loaded their trucks on railroad cars and shipped them by rail to Subiaco. They wasted no time. But when they arrived at the monastery they found little to do other than to look at the bleak walls, the shivering students and monks...
...Actor Gilbert and of Actress Eagels, make it possible to forgive certain weaknesses in the story. The weakness of the conclusion in which Mr. Gilbert wobbles off with his mother (adequately played by Gladys Brockwell) can be largely forgiven because its frailty is not due to an abortive attempt to satisfy the unsophisticated appetite for rose petals and wedding bells at every story...
...calm, capable of reflecting intelligently on difficult problems, and able to arrive at logical conclusions: Lindbergh, who is similar to the Crusaders of old, and Will Rogers, who is such a gentleman and actor, are the admirable types of men. Perhaps, I am only cynical when I attempt to visualize a man combining the good qualities of these three...