Word: attempt
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...undefeated minor sport elevens will attempt to continue along victorious ways this afternoon. Langdon Burwell leads the cross country squad against Dartmouth and the University of New Hampshire in a triangular affair over the Charles River course at 3:30 o'clock. Coach Jack Carr's soccer squad travels to Hanover for an important New England Intercollegiate League game...
This year's schedule proposes four plays instead of the usual two. More emphasis will be placed upon the type of student production which will corner the interest of a student audience. Two of the four plays will attempt to follow in the successful trail blazed by Auden's "Ascent of F-6" last year. The others will delve into the experimental field of drama--new, or little-known works that afford pleasant diversion for both actor and audience...
...angry, but when he got mad he stayed mad: public slurs had been circulated about his wife, his father, his family. He began giving each train-platform audience a history of each of them-his father's belligerent advocacy of civil liberties, his father's attempt to enlist in 1917 at the age of 60, his mother's years of work in the Red Cross, his sister's wartime Government work as a translator of confidential war documents, his own enlistment, that of his oldest brother Robert, the war work of another brother in airplane manufacture...
...They are the successors of the Romans, the Arabs, the Vikings, the Spaniards, the Flemish, the British, and many other Germans; but after every other invasion France always succeeds France. She remains herself, like these old stones from Provence which the Romans hauled down from the mountains in their attempt to colonize once for all the land which Caesar captured from Vercingeto...
...same attitude toward war that the Crimson has, the freedom of press which its editors use so blindly would never have existed. Last Spring, I wrote you a letter on this war which, for some unexplained reason, you did not see fit to publish. I hereby make the attempt once more to see whether the Crimson really practices the democracy about which it talks so much. John F. Sciberling...