Word: failed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their industries as a whole, almost none of the relation between their particular interests and our general social and economic structure, and far too little grip on the social consequences of their activities. We create great banks. Their leaders too often know little beyond finance. When thousands of banks fail, mainly through the intrusion of new social and economic forces, they and the community think in terms of improving the management of banks rather than of restoring social equilibrium, the loss of which accounts for most bank failures. When the farm problem becomes a major catastrophe, business either ignores...
...were being defended by a Jewish lawyer who belonged to the International Labor Defense, a Communist-affiliated organization, it was plain enough which way the verdict was due to fall. It was a foregone conclusion that the attempt to get at least one negro on the panel would fail...
...follow him, corner him in the storeroom of an office building. They take him off to face their kangaroo court in the cellar of a deserted brewery. His psychopathic defense-"You are criminals because you want to be! I am one because I cannot help it!"-is about to fail when the police arrive. You do not see whether Society kills or tries to cure...
Every lexicon but youth's is bright enough to include such words as "fail," but not every dictionary is first-rate. The appearance of a first-rate dictionary is a newsworthy event in literary history. Since Nathan Bailey's Dictionarium Britannicum (1721), these events can almost be counted on the fingers of one hand.* Though every dictionary is more of a Who's Who of words than a supreme court of language, it is the ambition of every lexicographer to be the final arbiter. Generally acknowledged by scholars to be the nearest approach so far to supreme...
...larger number of Freshmen than usual will be disappointed in regard to first choices, since it is an unfortunate fact that most of the first-year men are making a herd rush for the larger and newer Houses. It is to be hoped that all those men who fail to obtain the desired House will cooperate as much as possible in the present difficult situation by not complaining. The authorities will in fact, be wise if they do the greater part of the adjusting with those groups of friends entering together, since the men in these groups, missing the desired...