Word: failed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...about is fair play, but I can't see why several dozen Harvard boys should be so widely and sensationally denounced for an outrage which the 'valiant defenders of democracy' have been committing' with perfect liberty during the past 20 years.... Speaking with all possible impartiality, I can't fail to see in the melodramatic charges of legion men a certain psychological trait, commonly found in the 'bully' type. Here's my proof...
Since last spring many visitors to Czechoslovakia have reported one thing, Every Czech, high and low, with whom they talked-and President Eduard Benes gave scores of audiences-declared in substance with passionate conviction: "Even if our allies fail us, no matter if we are left to face overwhelming odds and certain defeat, nevertheless Czechoslovakia will fight rather than yield...
Chimed the Johannesburg Star: "If Prime Minister Chamberlain's peace efforts fail the British people all over the globe will recognize and respond to the call to duty...
...these educational opportunities. It is indeed a grave challenge, for you must not allow the many foibles of college life to prevent you from concentrating on your academic work. You must not let the calibre of the undergraduate body be surpassed by that of the faculty. You must not fail to understand the implications of the point so superbly stated to you this summer by Dr. Baxter when he said, "Shocking as is the paradox of poverty amid abundance, of millions in want in a land whose productive resources are enormous and capable of enormous expansion, it is no more...
Born of the boom and orphaned in 1929, network radio grew up lustily through the lean decade without ever having to go to a foundling home. In only one year, 1933, did it fail to pile up gross revenues to top all previous years. In 1934, gross incomes exceeded 1933's by 35.4%, 1932's by 9%. Radio's 1933 depression was not only brief, it was also noteworthy for being tardy, for other industries were near bottom as early as 1932. So network-sales experts have derived from that experience their characteristically optimistic axiom that...