Word: failed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...University is really badly frightened by the spectre of taxation by a private organization, it still need not fail in its sincere attempt to aid its employees. President Conant could appeal to the alumni for funds to help the University provide adequate pensions for all its employees. And this on the principle that Harvard owes an obligation to its employees as well as to students; that there is no fundamental opposition between these two obligations; that in fact a University can educate its students to new situations and responsibilities by practice as well as precept...
...stressing the influence of symbols Arnold does not, as has been claimed, fail to see the enormous strides men have made through rational thinking. He realizes that the progress of physical science has been aided by the existence of a symbol like "men in white" which, in conflicts between tradition and modern methods, has thrown the balance in favor of rational thinking. Arnold's point is that there has been a delay in developing a symbol in the field of social science that enables rational thinking to break down the logictight compartments of a Jeffersonian Democrat...
Sirs: ... I fail to see how the appearance of such a cover on an issue of your publication at a time when the Wagner-Van Nuys Bill is be fore the U. S. Senate can be taken other than a deliberate attack on the Southern opposition to the bill...
...reel, for the sweeping imprimatur, "Passed by the National Board of Review." To better cinema groups, women's clubs, educational organizations and to some State and municipal legislatures, this O. K. has signified a tested product. And the industry, well aware that few films submitted ever fail to pass, has been more than happy to pay the modest reviewing charge for this sort of testing...
...booming 'twenties it was normal for 600 banks to fail per year. In 1930, after a year of depression the figure vaulted to 1,350. Last week the present depression had been going only six months. But in that time business generally had fallen as far as it did in the entire year after the 1929 market smash. Significant therefore was the year-end report made by Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. last week...