Word: failed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Your research regarding Joseph Smith and the "golden tablets later translated into the Book of Mormon" seems to have been very limited. Not only does Mormon history fail to corroborate your footnote [TIME, Sept. 9]-"Smith sternly refused to show the tablets, warned that a mere peep would cause instant death, himself examined them through 'magic spectacles' "-but on the contrary the testimony of eleven witnesses ... is printed on one of the first few pages of every Book of Mormon published...
Experts agree that the best hope of a cancer cure rests on finding a medicinal substance to seek out and destroy cancer cells without harming normal body cells. All known drugs fail. But radioactive isotopes of elements normally used by the body have recently been found to be effective against two diseases helpful in studying cancer. The diseases: 1) hyperthyroidism (overactivity of the thyroid gland); 2) polycythemia (overactivity of tissues which manufacture red blood cells...
...little mention was made of past suffering. During the opening days of the Congress, all attention was concentrated on the job ahead. There seemed to be an almost fanatic determination that it should not fail...
With Margaret Webster at the directorial helm, the production has spared nothing in the way of costume or set, music or make-up. The result is a magnificent spectacle. Where Miss Webster and her company fail is in the equally important job of creating a unified, tasteful play for a twentieth century audience...
...know the author of your editorial "Crime of Omission," but, whoever he is, I do not believe that he is as familiar with the evidence presented at Nuremberg as the judges. In viw of this I fail to see by what reason he took it upon himself to decide that the three defendants who were acquited by the Court should have been convicted, and that others should have received heavier sentences than the Court saw fit to give them. We appointed the Court to decide these very questions, and we must now respect its judgment even...