Word: failed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...students entering Harvard must undergo a physical examination. Those who fail will be required to take special corrective exercises...
...lawmakers of Texas turn traitor." boomed the Long voice out of the loudspeakers, "and fail to prohibit cotton on Texas farms, the price of your crop will fall to 2¢ per Ib. next year. How do you vote on the cotton holiday plan...
...what if the State should fail to supply aid?" persisted the newshawks...
...Harper's Bazaar and Cosmopolitan for September pictured a happy wife, husband & child, "typical of more than 20,000 investing families who have taken advantage of the Hearst customer-ownership plan." with ten potent reasons why readers should buy. A provision of the deal is that, should dividends fail in any four successive quarter-years, the preferred stockholders could elect a majority of the directorate, which is otherwise controlled by Mr. Hearst, holder of all the common stock. Chance of this development seems remote. Though distribution of the preferred stock has been slow, Hearst Consolidated Publications Inc. has this...
Novels in the autobiographical form which fail to describe carefully the hero's "awakening" (first woman) are now so rare that one in which this event does not even occur can be classed as a literary phenomenon. Albert Grope is a phenomenal book in other respects also. It deals in the mood and vernacular of Victorian fiction, with the humble upbringing and start in the world of a commercially enterprising but socially timid late-century Cockney Londoner. The hero, speaking in the first person, describes events preceding by 20 years his recording of them. But it takes a typically Victorian...