Word: attempt
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Totalitarian methods of pressure" would be used by the Axis in the event of a British defeat if they did not even attempt to attack this country directly and immediately. To prevent such dangers, speedy action "to be decided by military authorities on the basis of maximum effectiveness against the Axis powers" should be taken...
Donald Carlisle Greason, the forty-three-year-old artist famous for his aeries of studies of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, is now preparing to paint a set of oils on Harvard athletics. Greason has been working since last spring in his attempt to "catch the spirit of American youth as it is expressed in the many activities of a great college...
...Economics A you learn the theories, and in the advanced courses you learn how they do not apply." This old verdict sums up the tragedy of academic economics: the struggle for a scientific approach to an essentially unscientific objct, the attempt to project reality into a vacuum by relegating the "other factors" out of the rump of reality, the economist wilfully shapes a fragment into an imaginary whole, his theory. By its very origin, economic theory is a segment...
Last week, as Dies and the Justice Department continued to wrangle, FBI made a feeble attempt to get back into the E. Phillips Oppenheim area of romance, international intrigue and slinky sirens. At a dinner of the National Stevedores Association,* in Washington, one of G-Man Hoover's assistants, Inspector L. R. Pennington, "bared" a "girl spy plot." The stalwart inspector alleged that "a prominent society woman from a totalitarian country" had plotted to hire beautiful but subversive girls, had rented a house in Washington, was ready to install elaborate gambling facilities. Army, Navy, State Department officials were...
...business not taken over by Japanese, import and export restrictions cut off raw materials and closed markets for the goods which could be manufactured. Cotton mills had reduced their output 30%. The tea and silk trades were at a standstill. U. S. oil companies were grimly bucking a Japanese attempt to establish a monopoly...