Word: attempt
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Corporal Russell E. Hoyt Post, Veterans of Foreign Wars, announced last night that James Tobias '41, of Dunster House and Freemont, Ohio would be honored with the Post's first annual citizenship award for his attempt to save Lenna Levins, three-year-old baby from drowning in the Charles River on March...
...pristine glory--the days when jazz was the finest expression of The American Ideal and a bulwark of democracy. When those things go, where is America? But I have been trying to uplift the present stuff and even my enemies, of whom I have legion, will admit that my attempt has been gallant. I am, of course, well-known in all circles where the righteous jumpin' Jive is purveyed and I am confident that my influence is a steadying and inspiring...
Professor Elliott's mouth is not mealy with the idealistic mush which can be refuted by a scornful guffaw and reference to the debacle that was the last U. S. attempt to reform European power politics. Because he wants to go to war with a hard-headed conviction that it is to our own materialistic interest to do so -- not starry-eyed and reciting poetry -- Professor Elliott's case for intervention is extremely dangerous. We are making the mistake made by the British at Munich, he says, and if we allow the force to disorder a victory in Europe...
...premise that peace is a precious possession today and not a political football. We have endeavored and are succeeding in rallying around our program the united support of a rapidly growing number of Harvard students. We regret that at this late date a group sees fit to attempt to divide this growing unity which is so essential to the fight for peace. We call upon this group to demonstrate its sincerity by joining with the rest of Harvard in supporting our rally...
Network engineers pointed out that many transmission kinks will need to be ironed out in the near future in an attempt to extend the area of effective reception...