Word: failed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since a raging stream of solicitors will submerge Freshmen beneath a flood of pressing, laundry, and metropolitan newspaper contracts this week-end, 1939 will undoubtedly fail to realize how lucky it is. For its arrival on Memorial Hall steps yesterday removed the new regulations for students in business from realms of fancy to reality...
...system of taking them into a forest near Tallinn and shooting them, always in a different glade. This stirred so much criticism that finally the President thought up a better system: the prisoner might have the choice of hanging or downing a cup of poison. Should the poison fail to work in five minutes, he should be hanged anyway...
...DeSilva believes that the dismal U. S. toll of injury, death and property loss exacted by automobile accidents (TIME, Aug. 12) is largely due to the fact that entirely too many drivers take their driving for granted, fail to assess and try to improve their skill as they would if they were fishermen or golfers or chess players. He scoffs at the typical test for an operator's license, in which a bored policeman rides slowly around the block with the candidate, who meets no emergency and performs nothing more difficult than turning around in a dead-end street...
...player disappear when her matches start. She covers the court in a series of wild scrambles, hits a jerky forehand that looks better suited to a flyswatter than a tennis racket and wins on steadiness, indefatigable nerve and the brains which most women players either signally lack or fail to use. As Ethel Burkhardt, she learned tennis in San Francisco, went East at 20 in 1929, reached sixth place in national ranking in 1930, then married a carpet salesman and dropped out of major play. She called attention to her reappearance this year by winning in quick succession the Seabright...
...here and shut up." Since this is the way newspaper reporters customarily speak to their editors in the cinema, audiences at The Murder Man will not be surprised to learn that instead of being fired Steve Grey gets a bonus. Of more consequence is the probability that they will fail to be surprised also at the contents of Steve Grey's story. The story, a death-house interview with an investment racketeer (Harvey Stephens) whom Grey's testimony has helped to convict and whose arrest and trial he has covered with breath-taking efficiency, is meant to afford...