Word: failed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Finch's stout is good no doubt, From either wood or bottle. Their bitter ale can never fail To please the thirsty throttle. Their rum and wine are very fine; Their gin will make you frisky. But never draught was ever Quaffed To equal Finch's Whiskey...
...election campaign raised a stir which amounted to a scandal throughout England (TIME, Dec. 27), and then last week, the polling brought a climax. Oswald Mosley was elected a Laborite by 16,077 votes; only 9,495 going to J.M. Pike, his Conservative opponent while the Liberal candidate fail to poll one-eighth of all the votes cast and so forfeited his elector deposit...
...example, if two elastic bodies collide at sufficiently high velocities, the laws of elasticity fail completely and the resulting motion is indeterminate. Recent researches enable us to state that such bodies may oscillate in a stable way near to a periodic state...
...replaced by the supervision of a League of Nations investigating commission, as envisaged in Article 213 of the Versailles Treaty. 2) The instances of German failure to disarm cited in the Foch report will be settled by negotiation among the Powers, and should this fail will be referred to the Council of the League of Nations. 3) Ad interim all work on the German forts along the Polish frontier shall stop. 4) The present Allied military commissioners in Germany will be permitted to remain, although reduced in numbers, as "technical experts" attached to the Allied legations in Berlin...
Omitting the vague point as to what constitutes public service, the objector may counter with other equally salient arguments. Many who receive scholarships fail to attain any great wealth on graduation. This fact, however, has nothing to do with their value as men entitled to the fellowship of educated men. Success, as it has often been pointed out, is more than a matter of dollars and cents. Men who are in every way worthy of scholarships may never be in a position to repay the loan To deprive them of the grant would be to lend an unnecessarily materialistic atmosphere...