Word: failed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...although it is true that the Secretary of Commerce is no spellbinder, no dealer in mellifluous mouthing, he is nonetheless a straightforward, direct, matter-of-fact speaker, who never talks unless he has something to say and who, when he has, says it in language that no one can fail to understand. His delivery and voice have both improved in recent years and still leave much to be desired. They are certainly far from being so poor, however, as to justify your superlative "very, very...
...found, however, that these or other measures fail to remedy the present linguistic deficiencies of the average Harvard student, the CRIMSON urges that Harvard frankly abandon the existing pretense that all her graduates are versed in any language other than English...
...congratulations on your mail-bags of this morning and the other day. You have gloriously fulfilled the CRIMSON'S grand old motto. "Make a stink." Though the callowness and hyperbole in your anonymous communications will prevent their hurting the eminent young scholar against whom they were directed, they cannot fail to decrease his interest in teaching and in the course and to break down the feeling of close personal contact on which all successful teaching must rest. In addition, by thus twitting him in public on a matter in which he knows himself somewhat weak, you have done your best...
...Loree's adversaries fail, there may come into being a fifth Eastern trunk-line system. Last week Loree stood silent. His faithful lieutenants howled "press agent" at adverse propaganda, as usual. Three years the battle has raged. Significantly, April First is fixed by both sides as solution date...
...International Corporation, Anglo-London and Paris Bank, San Francisco Savings Bank. Dollar ships, Dollar wood, Dollar banks, Dollar offices in eastern cities the smooth plate-glass windows of which are never molested even when yellow men demonstrate with sabotage the unpopularity of foreign capital. Listed, these things suggest but fail to explain Robert Dollar's position in U. S. industry...