Word: failing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Aertsen says that "since Finland is willing to suffer in defense of those ideals and principles which underlie our own Constitution, and which we hold to be good, true, and fundamental, certainly we must not fail to offer aid to that small, brave nation...
Referring to peace efforts between the A.F. of L. and the C.I.O., he said that they would fail "as long as the present reactionary leadership of the A.F. of L. remains entrenched. I know where they stand and I know their records--we spent money to find...
From his experience as Student Councilor Swett feels that a large majority of students, "because they fail to think of any other vocation, go into the big three, business, law, and medicine. Business, alone, accounts for more than 40 per cent of the undergraduates...
...making is ad misericordiam. Admittedly we have no case, but in our view there are higher considerations than stern justice and law." In Britain the Manchester Guardian, recalling the three Irish Republicans hanged in 1867 for killing a Manchester police sergeant, warned: "Nobody looking back on Irish history can fail to see the immense importance that the fate of individuals tried and punished by British authorities has had in Irish history...
Very occasionally, students who persistently ignore the parking rules and fail to bring their tickets to General Alfred's office. Are charged on their term bill for $2 per ticket, Yard police explained...