Word: failed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard know this. Those who know and love Harvard are fond of the Freshmen and particularly solicitous for them to do well, because deep down in their hearts they are gripped by a terrible fear, fear that some day, in some way a Freshman Class may, proving itself unworthy, fail Harvard, and then Harvard must fail...
...Cedillo. The Minister of Agriculture peevishly complained that the undergraduates, many of them students he had appointed, should remain loyal. He wired Cárdenas at Yucatan: "Order War Department to present for my disposition 200 soldiers to be sent to Chapingo Agricultural School to stop riots. Should you fail to comply . . . please accept this as my resignation. . . ." The threat failed. Cárdenas replied, "Your resignation has been accepted." General Cedillo hurried his bulk off to the safety of his own bailiwick...
...feed. A Manhattan playwright, Steve Raleigh (Robert Taylor), whose show Caroline is backing, finances Sally's auction bid for Star Gazer, tries to cast her as his leading lady. Jealous, Caroline withdraws her backing. At this point only juvenile or feeble-minded members of the audience will fail to perceive that, if the show is to have a conclusion, Star Gazer must win the $25,000 handicap...
...talkies fail to print subtitles throughout the films. Hence deaf-mutes who dislike reading lips cannot understand all of the action...
President Eamon de Valera ran last week for a third term. Election of an Irish Free State President is by the Dail, itself just newly elected in a poll which failed to give de Valera's Fianna Fail Party the absolute majority for which the President had hoped (TIME, July 12). Fianna Fail won 69 seats, exactly the same number as the total held by all other parties combined. Free State Laborites continued last week to vote in loose coalition with Fianna Fail, and Eamon de Valera was elected President for the third time by a smashing Dail vote...