Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...treatment of the theme results here in a sacrifice of plausibility to uniqueness--for the plot is certainly unique if nothing else. The ordinary mortal has no difficulty in experiencing the definite thrills of such "spook" dramas as "The Ouija Board," but in comparison, "One" is a very ambitious attempt which is not so easy to understand. The convenient method of communication between the sisters does not seem quite in keeping with customary procedure in such matters, but the exigencies of the theatre may easily account for this. Whether the spectator is too materialistic to enjoy the production...
...team will leave Cambridge on Saturday afternoon, April the 16th, and will arrive in Atlanta on the morning of the 18th. On the 21st, the team will leave Atlanta for New York, where it will meet Columbia and attempt to avenge last year's defeat...
France's war president is correct in his estimation. On the one side there has been no unanimity, no definiteness, on the other no sincerity nor marked attempt at disarmament. As a result, Germany has been able to employ diploma icevasion which leaves matters as unsettled as on the day of the Armistice. There have been threats and injunctions, but so far no decisive action...
...critical point that the war blockade has been lifted, and out markets once more opened to the cheaper and more popular German dyes. Should there be no protection given to the American industry, it must infallibly fall. Wages in Germany are low, and that country will make a strong attempt to win back its old trade. Our own industry must be fostered for a time if America expects to hold the ground gained during the last four years...
...will but increase her defiance. Certainly the former probability is the most desirable; there are too many latent forces of literary and scientific thought and accomplishment in Germany to have them thrown away in useless pursuit of a rainbow's end. Were Germany to realize this, and make some attempt to free herself, as has Austria, from the grasp of Prussianism, not only she, but the world as well, would profit...