Word: failed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Still persisting in his erudite inquiry, Senator Bailey pressed a hypothetical question: "If in the next 17 months the Treasury undertakes to raise $11,000,000,000 by way of selling bonds or short-term notes, and you should fail to sell them . . . what would be the effect on the economic structure of the Government...
...word in defense of "and/or" (TIME, Dec. 23)? This highly convenient phrase simply means "either one or the other or both." It makes it possible to say in one sentence what would otherwise require two or three. 1 fail to see why the expression of the conjunctive and disjunctive in one short phrase should cause so much trouble...
...visit to Stockholm in 1925 as Prince Regent. On that occasion the little Ethiopian persuaded crack Swedish officers including General Virgin to resign from the Army, took them to Addis Ababa where they have trained Ethiopian troops. Said Herr Dahlberg: "We are not sure but what if Italian aviators fail to get our Swedish military instructors at Addis Ababa they may not try to get some of our Swedish ambulance units in the field...
...Minneapolis Symphony, who not many years ago was fiddling obscurely in Manhattan's Capitol Theatre. Fresh from Hungary, where his dentist-father had pushed him as a prodigy, he had been lured to the U. S. by a promise of a concert tour, only to have his manager fail him. Other men's misfortunes led to his swift rise as a conductor. The leader at the Capitol was taken suddenly ill one day; within a few hours the young violinist stepped into his place. Four years ago Arturo Toscanini was unable to keep an engagement in Philadelphia; young...
...opinion makes the primary point of warning the court that it is concerned "Only with the power to enact statutes, not with their wisdom," and, what is as arrogant as it is redundant, that the justices must never fail to exercise self-restraint. It is hard to believe that Justice Stone's colleagues on the bench either deserve or need such a sermon. At no point in the majority opinion does the court lose the strict objectivity it has heretofore maintained. In this case Justice Stone is not addressing a frost-bitten or anti-social cabal. The decision is that...