Word: failing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...place in U. S. life. Said he in 1938, to the first constitutional convention of his C. I. O. : "After all I merely undertake to express and articulate in a public way the things that you say to me, the instructions that you impose upon me. ... If I fail to understand my instructions, if I fail to comprehend what you really mean in your resolves . . . my voice will be of no more value than the most humble citizen going about his obscure toil. . . . My strength is only the strength of the multitude...
...must not fail," he told them passionately. "We cannot fail. The free way of life is at stake. . . . See people, convert them, take them to the polls. We must win. People ask me, can you take it? I can take it forever. There is no personal sacrifice I would not make to prevail in this struggle. Do not be afraid. Be soldiers unafraid in the fight for justice. America would not be the land of the free if it were not also the home of the brave...
Here Miss Hughes is speaking much truth. No one can get much humor from Sir Toby Belch's pun on "points" if he isn't aware that points in Queen Elizabeth's day were of vital importance in connecting one's pants to one's suspenders. In fact, I fail to see how an audience can enjoy Shakespeare at all, especially his comedy, if it hasn't given the play a good once-over ahead of time. Not that Shakespeare is "deep" or needs unravelling. But it only stands to reason that an author who draws on such a wide...
Gruff Hugh S. Johnson, who regards polls as public evils "not to be swallowed whole," offered to eat his syndicated Scripps-Howard column if the Gallup poll should prove correct this fall. Dr. George Horace Gallup accepted and replied: "My newspaper existence will end if I fail to predict the election correctly, but General Johnson will only have to eat a page* of newspaper print...
Anyone who is thinking of declaring himself an objector should not fail to consult the Faculty Civil Rights Committee if he is not sure just how and when to make his convictions known. Naturally the main factor in the situation is just what a man's conscience will or will not allow him to do, and on that score, no one can expect outside help. Several pacifist sects set up organizations for relief and reconstruction work in wartime, and then try their best to get them rated as legitimate noncombatant groups under the Selective Service Act. Nearly all these sects...