Word: failed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Words fail us to express our feelings of deep thanks for the sympathy you showed us on the occasion of the recent seismic disaster. Not only are the citizens of Tokyo and other cities and towns who were stricken by the calamity unfeignedly grateful for your humane help and compassion, but the whole Japanese people shares the feeling. We have been impressed more than ever by the fact that all men are brothers throughout the world and cannot refrain from offering you our sincere thanks...
...leave said port are hereby given six days' grace, the time to be counted from the date upon which the blockade begins. After this time elapses vessels that wish to either enter Tampico or depart thence will be considered as enemy vessels. Such a declaration affecting Tampico could not fail to injure the interests of the U. S., as most of the oil from American oil companies in Mexico is shipped from that port. The U. S. State Department declared that de la Huerta's action was an unnecessary interference with commerce...
...Professor Carver in his interview in today's CRIMSON points out, Lenin, the socialist, failed in Russia, and should Macdonald employ similar methods he will fail in England. England, however, will not allow herself to starve in the process...
Nerves that was what was the matter with Henry Williams. He was a nervous wreck. He admitted it. He bragged about it. To be sure, when it came to a showdown, his nerves didn't fail him in holding up a large touring car and robbing its occupants of all the gasoline they possessed, nor did it interfere seriously with his fighting ability when Mort forgot that Sally Morgan was supposed to be married. But all sorts of things happen in Montana, you know, and even very intelligent young men from Pittsburgh may learn a thing or two there...
...Presumably those who oppose the plan do so in good faith, but they fail to appreciate the gravity of the situation, and from the enthusiastic reception of the plan it appears also that they do not represent the opinions of their constituents...