Word: failed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...know that neither in the summer primaries nor in the November elections will the American voters fail to spot the candidate whose ideas have given...
...approval on his recently negotiated Anglo-Irish agreement, the voters of Eire in a general election for the Dail Eireann (lower house) last week returned lanky, professorial Prime Minister Eamon de Valera and his government to power for five more years. At last reports "Dev's" Fianna Fail party had captured 70 of the 138 seats, the Fine Gael party of his oldtime opponent, former President William T. Cosgrave, 40 seats, the Labor party six and the Independents seven. Under Eire's involved system of proportional representation, the final tabulation will be a matter of days but observers...
...sacrifice there came progress. From failure came success. The best way to succeed is to fall. One of the best ways to fail is to succeed. Consider the dinosaurs, tremendously successful in their day. Where are they...
...much trouble seeing the paintings for the fogs of publicity. Two years ago, bashful James Egleson, then 29, got permission to paint an anti-war mural on the walls of a good-sized lecture room in Swarthmore College. An engineer who turned to painting when his eyes began to fail, studied under Jose Clemente Orozco, Artist-Engineer Egleson kept the lecture room locked while he worked, breeding stories that conservative graduates were trying to have the murals suppressed...
Last week, Panama decided to start collecting, by hook or crook. Through the authoritative newspaper El Nuevo Diaro, President Juan Demostenes Arosemena let it be known that on a $3,500,000 loan floated in the U. S. in 1923, Panama would fail to make the $62,000 payment due this week...