Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...steel workers state: "My president, delay is no longer possible. . . . We fully understand the hardships that will follow, and the reign of terror that unfair employers will institute. The burden falls upon the men, but the great responsibility therefor rests upon the other side." The strikers make no attempt at an adequate explanation of why delay is impossible. Nor do they take into account when they say the burden falls upon themselves, how heavy will be that borne by the whole country...
...possible. The Advocate ought not to allow philosophers in extremis to declaim upon the whimsies sponsored by Mr. J. M. Barrie. The essays on subjects of no special academic interest are, I think, all of them a little too over-mannered to be successful. The kind of thing they attempt can only be done well by a real master of the essay; and they belong rather to the sphere of well-meaning discipleship than of successful creation. The number by and large, is certainly above the standard of last year's Advocate. It would be admirable if the attempt...
...Mister in "The Nude Romance" makes an amusing attempt at parody some of the material which has appeared in recent numbers of the Harvard Magazine. That sort of thing calls for a facile pen and wit of a high order. Mr. Mister gives promise of cultivating or acquiring these by dint of much practice. Although he is far from expert now, his work shows much promise, and even a poor attempt is better than none. Such parodies do much toward stimulating a healthy rivalry, in the same way that Zeppelin raids during the war were almost invariably followed...
Yesterday's two great aerial feats make one wound what the man's next conquest of the air will be. The news that the second attempt at a non-stop flight across the Atlantic has been successful, and that the "pond" has been bridge, not only by one who stopped to land at the Azores, but by an American and a Briton who spurned the ground for over 16 hours, adds one more to the long list of aerial accomplishments. The second team the establishment of a new altitude record of 33,136 feet, although of less public interest, still...
When interviewed by a representative of the CRIMSON yesterday, Mr. Allen said he expects to spend the month of June in a preliminary study of the situation as regards University news and publications. In September he plans to begin work actively. He will attempt to help the newspapers and magazines to secure accurate news of the University with a minimum of inconvenience and delay, and he will also make other arrangements for keeping Harvard graduates and the public in general in closer touch with the University...