Word: attempts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hastily Justice Wasservogel said: "I don't think it will be necessary at all," worked out an agreement: 1) that Mr. Lowther would not attempt to see Miss Herrick for ten days; 2) that, after this period of abstinence, the parents would interpose no obstacle to their courtship and marriage. When defeated Mr. Herrick tried to make one last angry statement, Justice Wasservogel shut him off, pronounced the dread sentence that the fathers of daughters everywhere fear most to hear: "This man," said he, "may become your son-in-law, and you want to be on the best...
During World War I French finance ministers spent billions of their country's money as the generals spent lives-on a do or die principle. They made no attempt to balance their budgets and instead of figuring expenses on a yearly basis they asked for appropriations monthly...
...alleged German plan was to attack The Netherlands first, Belgium later-The Netherlands first because Belgium was expected to resist the Allied attempt to aid The Netherlands through Belgium. "Apparently it was not fully understood in Berlin that Dutch-Belgian relations in the matter of mutual assistance against aggression had undergone important changes following the [earlier] exchange of views between King Leopold and Queen Wilhelmina...
...Finally in 1928 after five barren years Harvard came into its own, breaking the drought by laterals executed by the Dave Guarnaccia-Art French combine. The year of the Depression saw Albie Booth's strip tease as the "mighty mite" stormed onto the field unsuccessfully to attempt a field goal. Harvard won 10 to 6. Barry Wood and Captain Ben Tickner made it three straight for the Crimson in 1930 with a 13 to 0 victory...
...Kremlin may abandon the policy of world revolution for an attempt to regain Russia's prerevolutionary boundaries, or it may try to set up a series of puppet communistic dictatorships in Eastern Europe, Professor Karpovich believes...