Word: failed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...medicine (July 22), did not take time to explain fully the A. M. A. Journal's article on mercurochrome. Readers are likely to be left with the impression that the red dye has been shown to be more efficacious than tincture of iodine as an antiseptic. You fail to state that when drug-buyers ask for mercurochrome, they are not getting the tincture, which Miss Hill described as being more bacteriostatic than a 7% tincture of iodine. They are handed instead a 2% aqueous solution, since few places outside of institutions carry the tincture. Miss Hill's researches...
...others of these perennial prophets, will name the exact place and time more definitely than 16 million square miles of the world's most active earthquake belt some day next week (cf. "in islands northeast of Australia," July 11 & 12), the entry should be scratched. And I fail to see how even juicy journalism can construe as fulfillment of such a futile forecast a volcanic eruption at Krakatoa, or a quake in Japan. "Gosh, that's wonderful...
Witchcraft. The author starts on the premise that all savages are metaphysicians. At the root of their outlook is the fact that they have almost no knowledge of natural laws and almost no conception of cause & effect. They do not know why people get sick and die, why crops fail, why there are droughts or rains, why arrows miss their mark or why hunters are mangled by beasts. Therefore they ascribe every mishap to the action of sorcerers, or of enemies practicing everyday magic, or of invisible influences about whose nature they speculate little but which they feel around them...
Abnormalities. The primitive has little conception of, and no confidence in. the orderly processes of Nature, and hence he is not much given to astonishment. He sees marvels every day, and though they may fail to surprise him they may nonetheless scare him almost out of his wits. He is dismayed when a child is born with teeth, or cuts its upper teeth first, and usually does away with it. The birth of twins is an omen of disaster. If a banana tree sprouts fruit not at the end of the stalk but near the middle, the plant is promptly...
...people who cheer loudest when you succeed are those who throw pop bottles the hardest when you fail. . . . Loud cheers make heroes. Pop bottles make martyrs. ... I knew an old priest once. His hair was white, his face shone. ... I am listed as a famous home-runner, yet beside that obscure priest, who was so good and so wise, I never got to first base...