Word: failing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Quarters, and 590 with both ends of the Dining-Room Table. Despite this room-to-room hookup, there is a flaw in the service. If Mr. Moore were in his Den (589) and a friend called him in the Front Upper Hall (593), he would likely as not fail to hear the phone ring, miss the call. From this intense coverage the Moore system is an average $18 a month richer by virtue of Michigan's law requiring utility officials to bill themselves for services received...
...should be able to give fullest effect to his dialogue and to some of the individual scenes which are master-pieces in themselves. Despite his occasional bitterness, Odets is more hopeful than ever. "Night Music" is almost a paen of faith. By the time it reaches Broadway it cannot fail to ring true...
...major responsibilities. It must acquaint the student with the major areas of learning so that he can choose wisely how to concentrate; and second, even if the student's choice is made before he comes to Harvard and he sticks to it to the bitter end, Harvard would fail if it allowed him to emerge with a top-heavy training in one field to the exclusion of all others...
...like their fantasy lavish and solid, may enjoy the elaborate Technicolored sets (cost: $200,000). They may even take in their stride the skulls, owls, ravens, blazing lightning, flaming forest and crashing trees the producers have got together to scare the daylights out of them. They can scarcely fail to enjoy Shirley Temple's artful childishness or chubby, kinky-haired Johnny Russell as her little brother, Tyltyl...
...Communists from control of the Student Union, then they can be of far more service to their principles in the national organization than they would be out of it. Observers sympathetic to their aims can only wish them success in their venture, with the reservation that if they fail, they should no longer stay in the Union. In the nation's eyes, an overwhelming repudiation of the packed Madison ballots would repair a badly damaged reputation and lead the way to establishment of a reputable student liberal front...