Word: failed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...over the same figure of last year. The 250 men who are due to receive A. M.'s at commencement, compare with the 156 who attained the distinction a year ago. These figures cannot be taken as final, however, for a considerable number v. aspire to the degrees fail to attain them due to the final examination barrier...
...Seniors failed to appear for their game yesterday, and forfeited it. If they fail to meet the Juniors today they will forfeit the services...
...second and final Yard Concert of the spring. If ever the panegyrics of reviewers and the bromide "outdid itself" are true, they are so for these affairs. The season, the audience, the location all contribute to the excellence of the performances; tradition lends its approval; and the participants never fail to co-operate with programs of musical worth and appeal. No one who has attended a Yard Concert will doubt that the audience is enthusiastic and genuinely appreciative...
...Bishop of Rome cannot in fact fail to deplore the fact that here in the Holy City of Catholicism, after 20 centuries of Christianity the sensitiveness and attention to delicate care due to young women and girls should be shown to have fallen lower than Pagan Rome...
Sometimes threats and blusterings succeed when fair words fail. For some weeks U. S. Cinema Censor Will H. Hays has been in Paris speaking none but fair words (TIME, April 2). His ticklish task has been to persuade the Cinematic Control Commission of the French Ministry of Public Instruction that it ought to modify a recent drastic decree. This was, in effect, that U. S. cinema dramas would be licensed for exhibition in France solely upon condition that for every four films so licensed U. S. exhibitors would purchase one French film and display it throughout...