Word: failed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cocked impatiently on the League of Nations' dormant Disarmament Conference President Hoover last week told the country: "Our people have ever been lovers of peace. . . . This Administration has spared no effort to bring about a reduction in arms. . . . These efforts are making progress. If these efforts finally fail we shall be compelled to build our Navy to the full strength, equal to that of the most powerful in the world...
...round Premier Edouard Herriot stepped buoyantly up to the high tribune of the Chamber of Deputies in Paris last week. "France!" he cried with appropriate sonority, "France, Messieurs, cannot take the responsibility of permitting the Geneva Disarmament Conference to fail...
...restriction of the number of meal's each week that a man might eat in other Houses has been suggested. Such a system would be a strict, perhaps in the long run an unavoidable limitation, but it seems wiser to try the above proposals as they stand; if they fail to provide sufficient limitation there will then have been experience upon which to base any necessary restriction. Finally, there appears no logical reason why hosts to Freshman should not be able to include their guest's meal in their quota...
...into protection and is strangling world trade. Until these separate interests are subordinated to the general good of the nation, until nations are governed by true national policy rather than destructive nationalism, no progress is possible. As Sir Arthur Salter sees it, the world is full of governments who fail to govern, if they are to save themselves from destruction they must rid themselves of the dictation of particular private interests and once again assert their authority in the interests of the whole...
...extreme of abolishing course grades altogether, it ought to make certain that those grades in every case mean something definite about a student's grasp of a subject. The fact that in a few snap courses an honor grade indicates no real mastery of the field cannot fail to have a bad effect on the whole scholastic standard of the college...