Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...committee will not attempt to pick out 'best sellers' or the 'best books of the month'," said Professor Murdock last night. "It will try to intricate some recent works which for one reason or another are likely to prove worth reading. In the annual flood of publications it is very easy for important works of non-fiction to escape attention...
...field of secondary education many opportunities exist which have not been utilized as fully as the technical development of the moving picture industry would warrant. Popular historical films may be an attempt to carry education to everyone, but in general sentimental features have been overworked. Secondary schools could do much in cultivating the tastes of youth by making use of some of the more intellectual types of films...
...English Folk Dance Society which is to present old English dances for a Bostonian, audience tomorrow night exemplifies once again the present day tendency to attempt to preserve the half-forgotten practices of the past. Unfortunately, most of these movements get started too late to save many of the most interesting examples of former arts, but the present society has had the great advantage of coming into existence before folk dancing was added to the already too long list of lost arts...
...Harvard Society of Contemporary Art which is to open an exhibit of some modern work Friday, is an example of this latter group. It also is an attempt to preserve a phase of artistic life which would otherwise leave only an incomplete record at best. No matter how diverse the actual mechanics of these two movements might be, and regardless of the merits of their respective fields, they represent a healthy common interest in works which individually could not be expected to be left to posterity, but collectively are tremendously interesting and pleasing...
...Yale scheme of offense is based on powerful line play pure and simple. There is very little attempt at deception and the overhead department is the customary Eli flop. But the line play is plenty good enough to make the straight running attack dangerous any where and any time...