Word: failed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Only once last week did the U. S. President's sure sense of how to pluck the strings of Latin American hearts fail him completely. At a press conference at the U. S. Embassy he welcomed 50 Latin newshawks. Deftly he put them at their ease, took charge of the interview. When asked whether the U. S. would join the League of Nations (of which Argentina is a loyal adherent) he said, with a frankness which could provoke no antagonism, that he felt sure he could say the answer was "no." Then a hesitant newshawk in broken English asked...
That Winterset will fail to appeal to the cinema's mass audience is likely. As an investment for RKO it can therefore be measured mainly as an introduction to the cinema public of several new faces...
...more ample resources of Boston have bolstered up the services that Stillman cannot supply, Another innovation of vital concern to the college is the psychiatric clinic. Every year a number of maladjusted individuals come to college, and because of a variety of troubles--finances, family, studies, and even love--fail to fit into the picture. When the psychiatric division takes charge of such men, they are generally sent back on the path to mental health...
...section men in Ec. A conducted polls of their students to ascertain the desirability of the book, and in all of the sections thus canvassed the opinion was almost unanimously against its further use. Such adverse criticism can not be overlooked by the department, since the students will fail to get the most out of McIsaac and Smith if they actively dislike...
Experiments in fiction have a double-acting influence. When they succeed, as Joyce succeeded in Ulysses, in enabling the author to state truths that could not be expressed in a traditional form, they encourage a thousand writers to work in the same field. When they fail, as Wyndham Lewis failed in The Childermass, the unread wreckage serves to warn later writers away from that intellectual reef...