Word: failed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...getting by. (2) In view of the fact that only certain types of exam questions can be asked and that these can easily be spotted by experienced tutors, cramming by Hun puts University examiners under the temptation of trapping the trapper and giving tests that will beat Hun and fail everybody. (3) Shallow tutoring is foreign to the purpose of all worth-while study, encourages habits of mental laziness, and is worse than useless in preparing for comprehensive examinations of upperclass years. (4) It is partially responsible for the failure of men who relied, in Freshman, and Sophomore years...
Ever since the first stockmarket crash there have been stories of a "trouble-spot'' in Manhattan banking. When remedies from within fail, a sure ointment for financial and industrial troubles is a merger. Long has it been hoped that this treatment would be used to assuage the Manhattan sorespot. Recently just such a merger was rumored. Remarkable feature was that it involved the unique plan of consolidating four banks (TIME, Nov. 10 ). They were: Manufacturers Trust, with resources of $463,000,000, greatly expanded during recent years; Public National Bank, with resources of $246,000,000, a bank...
...trying times before. Fitted by appearance and temperament to play drawing room drama, almost every time she has attempted something more pretentious she has met with a setback, e. g.: The Shadow (1915), Rose Bernd (1922), Romeo & Juliet (1922), The Kingdom of God (1928). Even a Barrymore can fail, critics remembered, when Scarlet Sister Mary opened in Columbus, Ohio, on Sept. 22. Up to last week the closest she had gotten to Manhattan was Washington...
Negroes. In Louisville, two Negro banks were drawn into the maelstrom. The National Negro Bankers Association adopted a slogan: NO BANK SHALL FAIL...
...planned the traffic systems of Boston, Chicago, Kansas City, Los Angeles, and San Francisco, not only opposes the setting of any speed limit but declares that driving which impedes traffic should be made a misdemeanor. The recommendations of the committee of which Dr. McClintock is a member, however, fail to include in their report all of the policies set forth by the Harvard professor, who also believes that in many districts existing traffic signals cause so much inconvenience as to render them worse than useless...