Word: attempt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have an ideal form which, with economy and grace, can express its function. Through centuries of trial & error many of man's simplest tools −the ax helve, the plowshare, the ox yoke −had achieved a utilitarian perfection of design. In essence, industrial design was a brave attempt to bring the same simplicity to all the goods and tools of modern living. The depression, when industrialists were willing to try anything to boost sales, gave the designers their first big chance to show what they could...
...tries at the center of the burly Cross line. West moved the ball to the three and on the next play he drove over. Charlie Walsh's conversion attempt was not good, his second miss of the season...
What stopped Curley from being a good governor was his attempt to gain power enough to form a state machine without setting up an efficient organization to do it. He tried to see everyone in the State and pass out jobs to everyone when the jobs just didn't exist; the Brahmins, looking out of their Beacon Hill bay windows were shocked by the long queues of unemployed emanating from the State House doors. That was the kind of thing that worked in City Hall, but couldn't possibly work on such a scale as the State of Massachusetts demanded...
George E. Cole, General Manager of the Coop, said that he had always interpreted this to mean that the report had to be ready three weeks in advance of the meeting but that no attempt had ever been made to mail the report out to members...
Coach Poley Guyda is still experimenting with his offense and plans to use a number of reserves in-his attempt to return to the victory column...