Word: failed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even if they fail to win the pennant this year, the Senators will be pleased if they can beat the Boston Red Sox. The Senators' Manager Bucky Harris was fired by the Red Sox's Owner Thomas Yawkey, whose fabulously extravagant expenditures to make his team a pennant winner have thus far totaled $2,000,000, including the $225,000 he paid the Senators for Joe Cronin with whom he replaced Harris (TIME, Nov. 5, 1934). On July 4 the Senators were pleased to find themselves a game ahead of the Red Sox who, second until they lost...
...branch, is not only a worthy but often a fascinating study of the past, reviving handsomely the glory of bygone days and deeds. A similar entertainment presented on the stage would attract encomiums not only from critics but also from teachers, doctors and philanthropists. On the screen it will fail to do so only be cause fashion deems it unsophisticated to credit Hollywood with sincerity...
...might also be taken for Civitans, another, though much smaller, businessmen's organization devoted to songs, luncheons, community service and mutual backscratching. General belief is that the Civitans take in those who cannot make the Lions; the Lions those who do not make Kiwanis; and Kiwanis those who fail to make Rotary, which is the spiritual father of them all. Last week Rotary assembled in Atlantic City for its 27th annual convention, 10,000 strong...
...Golfer Padgham stored his clubs in the golf-shop. Next morning, ready to leave the tee at 8:15 o'clock, he found the shop still closed. Unperturbed, Golfer Padgham broke in through a window, emerged with his clubs, shot two 71's. watched Scot Jim Adams fail by an inch to hole the putt that would have tied the championship...
...Regents of the Bank of France an overdraft of $10,000,000 on which to keep his Treasury going for the moment. Socialist Auriol said he will not take the franc off the gold standard, will not nationalize but only "reform" the Bank of France and will not fail to balance the Budget...