Word: failed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Besides several vague and misleading phrases, such as "cultural sensations," "sheer ugly effects," and "specific thoughts", there is one point which is quite inaccurate. The Harvard Glee Club is a choral organization and, I am afraid, would fail to bring to light subtle harmonies in a Brahms symphnoy! H. C. Schmidt...
...General Uyeda was not, from the Japanese standpoint, unduly optimistic when he planned to complete his entire drive within 18 hours. The drive was timed to begin on Japanese election day (see p. 22) and Premier Inukai of Japan assumed that in such circumstances his Seiyukai Party could not fail to win the Japanese Election...
...waltz-melody of "Zwei Herzen" comes to Toni while the arms of an unknown girl are resting on his shoulder. When he has played, and she has danced to his playing, she slips away. Without her, Toni cannot remember a bar of his waltz. The operetta is about to fail for want of it. But love finds out the way to the fraulein's heart, and hers joins with his to recall his "Zwei Herzen...
Most observers predicted that in the face of hard times, with hundreds of experienced transport pilots out of work, any attempted strike must fail. President Behncke claimed a union membership of about 475, out of 700 or 800 employed airline pilots. Transport operators thought that possibly 100 might support a strike program. But the operators were grateful that airplane mechanics were.not unionized, could not start a sympathetic strike...
...discovers very quickly that the expert practitioners in this field depends on dramatic instance of apparent success in the past for the swift and unsound generalization that promotion activity is of tremendous importance in our society': this is done without paying due regard to the promotion activities which fail of their goal, or which neutralize other promotional activities...