Word: attempts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After the prayer, roll call. Then Illinois got as far as the aisle. Mr. Vare did not even attempt to rise. By prearrangement Senator Norris, the parliamentary philosopher, voiced the objections of Insurgents and Democrats. The suspects "stood aside." In a perfunctory bark, Vice President Dawes declared the Seventieth Senate adjourned...
Yesterday. The Anti-Saloon League, in convention, voted to forego the undercover method of ensuring enforcement by exerting strong pressure on Government officials, a method used so effectively by the late Wayne B Wheeler. Hereafter it will make a frontal attack with publicity, educational campaigns, and an attempt to answer and condemn all "wet" literature and periodicals. This change is hardly the result of the Hearst disclosures, but springs from the general public feeling against high-handed bureaucracy. Certainly it will ease the hearts and slow the pens of many who thought the League was leagued with the Devil...
...attempt to advance the University team's standing from second to first place in the squash tournament held by the Massachusetts Squash Racquets Association, the four University teams will enter the meet Saturday greatly improved and confident of victory, according to Coach Harry Cowles. Team A, which defeated the Union Boat Club last week, will meet the racquetmen from the Harvard Club of Boston in Cambridge. At the University club in Boston, Team B will encounter the University club players. Team C will take on the Walkover club team. The Freshman team, which was the only University team to lose...
...attempt to assist all first-year men who are in need of financial aid, the Harvard Law School will hold a competition examination Saturday at 2 o'clock to determine the winners of approximately 15 scholarships which are offered every year in December to all members of the first year class. Each scholarship is worth $250, and is awarded to the men who receive the highest grades in the examination...
...these concerns need frighten no one, for in spite of their name they are designed to please anyone who has a spark of musical feeling and appreciation in him. Nor does it seem, judging from the enthusiastic audiences which annually attend these concerts that they fall in this attempt...