Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...compensation for confiscated property of American citizens, and third, the alleged participation of the Russian government in propaganda conducted in foreign slates by the Third International. In not exposing these reasons as the shallow mockeries they are, Professor Baxter is guilty of almost criminal negligence. The first is an attempt to make the Soviets appear a group of irresponsible brigands with whom orderly intercourse is impossible; as a matter of fact, they have simply pointed out the impossibility of talking debts with a nation that refuses to recognize the government it wants to talk to, and urge that the United...
...moment's consideration will suffice to show what an unusually large field this is for any course, be it even a full year, to attempt to cover. And yet Fine Arts 1d sets out to give an adequate survey of the vast mass of material piled up over a period of some fifteen centuries in less than fifteen weeks...
...mind you, objecting to the principle behind the Harvard denizens' actions. But they should have known better. Live and let live. Did the Yale Record attempt to have the Harvard Lampoon punished for stealing the fence? Aren't we all the victims at times of the exorbitancy of bootleggers, ticket brokers, taxi drivers and, I well remember, stock markets? No doubt Yale is now laughing heartily at Harvard's expense...
...Parker Dresser Cramer, who twice vainly tried to fly from Illinois over Canada, Greenland and Iceland to Europe (TIME, July 15) was with Explorer Wilkins and Flyer S. Alward Cheesman on Deception Island last week, preparing to attempt a South Pole flight. *Rendered possible by 80 pages of intricate computations and figures of George Washington Littlehales, 69, government hydrographic engineer, comfortably located in Washington. The Littlehales tables are to the avigator what Bowditch's tables are to the navigator. They aided Commander Byrd's North Polar flight...
...which liquor may be sold. Others are placing heavy taxes on distilled liquor in order to make it too expensive for most people. Others are prohibiting the selling of liquor except in Government dispensaries. We, in this country, have tried all of these and are now engaged in an attempt to limit the sale of liquor to medicinal and sacramental purposes...