Word: failed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fail to keep the Grade C and Grade D débutantes at a safe distance...
...Spain, with rifles, revolvers, machine-guns, and occasionally light cannon, the revolutionists fought their way. But, to their unbounded disgust, army, navy and civil guards stayed loyal. At least 400 were killed, 1.500 wounded in the bloodiest week-end the Republic has seen. What caused this revolt to fail, like all the others that have shaken the country since the fall of Alfonso XIII, was a complete lack of organization...
...present system of awarding scholarships by the various Associated Harvard Clubs permits much room for comment and criticism. Anually when the conclave of alumni from the individual clubs vote the customary stipend from $300 to $500 for Freshmen scholarships, they fail completely to take into consideration the fact that due to the rising cost of living in Cambridge this sum represents only a small amount of the yearly expenses incurred by the needy undergraduate. The result of the present method of disbursements has been that a large number of Harvard Club Scholarship recipients have been forced to leave college either...
...regards your review of Belle of the Nineties (TIME, Sept. 24, Cinema), you fail to mention body-padding on the parts of anyone else in the cast other than Miss West. How about Miss Katherine DeMille, whose upper torso throughout the entire film is something incredible, certainly too good to be true? Are these portions of the young woman's figure actually as wonderful as depicted or are they, for the most part, just a physiological hoax? Even a hoax of such proportions ought to be TIME-worthy...
...having not much fun." The acts that follow explain why not only Julia Glenn but Richard Niles (Kenneth MacKenna),the successful playwright who is her host; Althea Royce (Jessie Royce Landis), the aging actress who is his wife, and most of the other members of the large cast fail to enjoy themselves...