Word: failed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...past week must be read in this light. They are, unfortunately, in conflict with Occidental interests, and are endangering the lives of Western people and the Japanese who have largely absorbed Western culture. But, nonetheless, the movement is essentially one for liberty and as such should not fail to command a degree of sympathy, no matter how difficult that is, in all democratic countries...
...short-term "Schools" of specialized summer study have sprung up. Each School devotes as much time to advertising the beauties of its location and "the opportunities for contact with forward-looking students from other colleges" as it does to the intellectual menu served. No School this summer will fail to settle all the problems of the world in three, two, or one weeks of "absolutely free discussion...
...Japan won economic advantages on paper by the Russo-Japanese Treaty which Russia never would have granted if she had not been checkmated in England by the Conservatives. Russia promises Japan oil concessions in Saghalin and others in Siberia, but the Soviet's history shows that they generally fail to keep their word. Japan's benefits, therefore, are doubtful...
...estimate can be given of the duration of the experiment. There is a vast field open for an experiment of this type, but the present experiment will be terminated only when results fail to justify the means...
...hockey player and member of the American Olympic team, for his past salary, amounting to the sum of one thousand dollars. Amateur hockey has slipped so far in America that it puts any accusation of professionalism, directed against an individual foreigner, in almost a ludicrous light. Nurmi can scarcely fail to realize this...