Word: failed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When such opinion tends toward unanimity, it is a force which a government cannot possibly overlook and will not fail to reflect in its policies and actions...
...Tomorrow. From Rome this sentimental journeyman reported: "Government officials are favorably inclined." Elsewhere, he intimated, nations had received him most cordially. But so far he had no signatures on his pocketful of dotted lines. That was serious. For if a majority of this year's 58 foreign exhibitors fail to renew their leases, the 1940 Fair will have to cope with a lot of blank spots where the handsome foreign pavilions now stand...
...Estonia, which in exchange for trade favors had agreed to permit Red Army, Navy and Air Force units to dominate its soil from leased bases (TIME, Oct. 9), there was a great dither of excitement. J. Stalin had demanded that ratifications of the Soviet-Estonian Treaty be exchanged without fail in six days, a trick J. Stalin learned from A. Hitler when demanding a quick handover from little States like Austria and Czecho-Slovakia. Only an hour now remained before this time limit expired and the necessary papers had not yet arrived from Moscow. To nervous Estonians this seemed ominous...
...artist who hasn't the constitution to stand up under severe treatment such as having funny pictures of himself in the newspapers, being required to perform his best at a moment's notice, and dall the rest--will fail, even if he has a persuasive personal power. He is like someone who has a fortune on the moon. It is there, but he cannot utilize...
...Germany and Russia have now laid "a safe foundation for lasting peace in Eastern Europe" and "will direct their joint efforts toward searching ... as soon as possible ... an end to the war existing between Germany on the one hand and England and France on the other." Should their efforts fail "then the fact would be established that England and France are responsible for continuation of the war and in case of continuation of the war the Governments of Germany and Soviet Russia will consult each other regarding the necessary measures...