Word: failed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your article on Miss Maribel Vinson, the celebrated skater [TIME, Dec. 23], you give a long list of her extracurricular activities while at Radcliffe, but you fail to mention that in spite of all her outside interests she received the Degree of Bachelor of Arts With Distinction in the Romance Languages. This shows, it seems to me, that she uses her head as well as her legs...
...Kemp fought a defensive as well as a losing battle. He did not even attend the stockholders' meeting. His side contented itself with refusing to send in proxies in the hope that the meeting would fail to establish a quorum. After much last-minute proxy hunting, the Ivey-men established their quorum and the managerial casualties began. The victors sent the losers a resolution which, in effect, asked them please not to take the new elections to court, as the company had already done enough quarreling. "They must be afraid," commented Mr. Kemp, "otherwise they would not have passed...
...that will last at least a century and roofs that will never leak. We need a superconductor for electricity. We need artificial teeth that are as good as natural, . . . paper as permanent as parchment, fabrics and dyes that wind and sun cannot touch, a spring metal that will not fail with fatigue and rubber that will last a century. We need a satisfactory anesthetic for childbirth...
Could the Italian-born Holy Father in his compassion fail to yield to the Italian logic of this deal? In Berlin last week Italian diplomats went ahead in preliminary conversations with the Wilhelmstrasse and the German Bishops over details. From the German viewpoint it could mean the immediate spending, during a hard German winter, of 20,000,000 marks...
...Student Council's resolution, in line with Crimson suggestions of the last two years, cannot fail to be supported by every graduate or undergraduate who will have the fortune to attend Commencement exercises during future years. We strongly recommend that our readers dash up to University Hall this morning, and affix their signatures on the Student Council's placards...