Word: attempt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...obvious that General Gamelin can hardly be expected to achieve now, by an offensive, what he judged that it was unwise to attempt when the Polish Army was in being and the forces defending the Westwall - itself now made deeper - were far smaller. No military information is needed to arrive at such a conclusion, but only a sense of proportion...
Graduation will take a few reliables from the Harvard football camp. Captain Torbie Macdonald, Tom Healey, Bill Coleman, Mose Ballett, and Ernie Sargeant will he among the missing next fall, as will Jim Devine, Bart Kelly, George Downing, and Franzier Curtis. A good crop of promising Freshmen will attempt to fill most of the gaping holes, but most of the Yardlings seem more than a year away from the fast Varsity competition...
...appearance, it's going to be interesting to see how the trade bears up after having Fats Waller, Gene Krupa, Jimmy Dorsey, Count Basie, and Woody Herman--good bands all. Furthermore, such statements as this one of Shaw's bode ill from both swing and dancing viewpoints: "I will attempt to have a swing band playing at such, augmented by legitimate instruments playing legitimately." I'm afraid this is going to be an attempt and that...
Fresh from two successive triumphs over Exetar last weekend, the Freshman debating team will attempt to continue its streak when it meets Boston University Friday evening. Recently-elected President Thomas Matters '43 has announced that the society will enter the Dartmouth Invitation Tournment...
Charles N. Pollak, II, of Westmoor Farm, did not, as was reported in last week's issue of the Mirror, fall into the Harvard swimming pool and spoil a record attempt by Harvard's swimming team. It has been revealed that at the time of the alleged incident Pollak was in New York City for the week...