Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Coxe left the ground and gave Conlon a base on balls. Then Perkins hit a hard grounder which hit on the field and bounded high over Holmes head. Emmons sacrificed, advancing both runners. Conlon came home and Perkins went to third when Jones reached the keystone bag on the attempt to catch Conlon at the plate. Then Janin, a recruit from the second team, lined out a double on which Perkins and Jones scored. After Hallock had flied to Parsons. Lincoln and Blair made singles, and two more runs were chalked...
...finally came through with one run and won the game and the series. At the beginning of the ninth, Faherty, Yale's center-fielder singled to third and got to second on a sacrifice by Holmes. Peters grounded to shortstop. The latter threw to McPhee at second in an attempt to force Crane, who had made his base base on balls, but the runner reached the bag safely. In the meantime Faherty made a successful dash for the plate...
...have at first been successes--no humble persons find a place in his volume. To tell the story of de Lesseps, the great Frenchman who dug the Suez Canal but was branded a failure by Mr. Ellis because in his old age he was not so successful in his attempt to construct the Panama Canal, in a little less than seventeen pages is, to say the least, impracticable. Imagine Thackery giving as little space to Becky Sharp's life (Mr. Ellis, by the way, would have considered Becky Sharp a failure of the first order) and you will have some...
...Today the different Departments and Bureaus of the government make up the estimates for their own offices. These are submitted to the Secretary of the Treasury, and he in turn transmits them to Congress without any attempt whatsoever to cut down the figures or to coordinate them with the other Departments. In my opinion a separate bureau should be created in the office of the Treasury Department with authority to reduce the estimates and submit to Congress a complete and workable budget...
...time it seemed as if California had completely lost hold of its self. After Lincoln had been thrown out at second, Blair, Felton and Conlon all singled. Blair scored on Conlon's single and Felton came in when Hallock rapped a drive to left field. Then Hallock, is an attempt to steal second, was caged between first and second; while he was being run down Conlon slipped home with the third and last tally of the inning...