Word: failed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bell Harry Tower), has 77 costly stained-glass windows, a 50-bell carillon. Off the transept is a memorial room in which Carrara marble figures of Washington Duke and Sons Buck and Benjamin lie in state. Below is a crypt for members of the Duke family. What Professor Blackburn fails to mention, but what no visitor can fail to see, is a ten-foot statue, smack in front of the chapel, of baggy-trousered, clod-hoppered Buck Duke, holding a big cigar...
...although the mood of graduation is simple and far from sombre, the several hundred Laertes who sit in the Quadrangle to-day cannot fail to carry away something of deeper tone than the note of momentary joy. Will they help achieve what the Class Orator saw as the need of civilization: intellectual integration? Will they contribute to the enthronement of those human values which can be the only means of preserving that balance between the individual and society which is freedom and the only way to insuring democracy? It may be, if in addition to the belief in the goodness...
...forced Mr. Hughes to stay away from the Court from March 6 to April 17, but when he returned everyone commented on what an amazing comeback he had made. His step was firm and vigorous, his color high, eye bright, voice strong. Then he began to fail. His last appearance was on the Wednesday preceding the term's end, and observers expressed doubt then that he would be able to finish...
...heard and applauded MRA messages from bigwigs, MRA testimonials from Groupers. They gave their greatest applause to Grouper "Bunny'' Austin, British tennis star, and accepted calmly enough the one message which made headlines. For the meeting, Franklin D. Roosevelt wrote: "A program of Moral Re-Armament cannot fail . . . to lessen the danger of armed conflict. Such Moral Re-Armament, to be most highly effective, must receive support on a world-wide basis...
...hard for me to conceive of any method of diffusing knowledge that would more exactly meet the purpose our first President had in mind. ... I am sure the heads of the Government departments will not fail to make good use of it ... to correct the kind of misinformation that is sometimes given currency for one reason or another. In some communities it is the unhappy fact that only through the radio is it possible to overtake loudly proclaimed untruths or greatly exaggerated half-truths...