Word: failed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...farmers knew that if God picked up the five Great Lakes and sloshed them over the Midwest, He would still fail to restore the lost crops of 1934. In Washington farm statisticians ground out columns of figures upon adding machines, calculating the damage which could not be mended, estimating the shortages which cannot be made...
...Adams observes that children lie glibly, ask many a question for no particular reason, often fail to distinguish between cause and effect. ("The fire engine stopped because the wheel is not going around.") Declares Dr. Adams: "The average child of 18 months cries 'No,' often and emphatically without having the slightest intellectual conception of its meaning. It screams 'No' decisively when a toy or a sweet is taken from it, and . . . when it is told to do something it considers disagreeable or unnecessary...
...haute couture? must risk its millions of francs of profit upon the artistic fecundity of 40 or 50 designers. The wages of 300,000 cutters and sewers, 150,000 embroiderers, glove makers, bag makers, hundreds of thousands of copyists the world over depend upon their creations. If they fail, the price is instant oblivion. If they succeed the rewards may be as great as those of Charles Frederick Worth, draper's assistant who revolutionized the haute couture in the 1850's and whose sons and grandsons have prospered mightily. No aspiring Paris dressmaker ever forgets the fact that Gabrielle Chanel...
...Shields could beat England's No. 2 dapper little Henry Wilfred ("Bunny") Austin, the U. S. had a fine chance to win the Davis Cup for the first time in eight years. In the other three matches, it was agreed that George Lott and Lester Stoefen could scarcely fail to demolish any doubles team England could put on the court; that Wood would probably beat Austin; and that Perry would certainly beat Shields. The draw scheduled both crucial singles matches for the first day of the series...
...been developed capable of crossing the Atlantic or Pacific with an effective military load, attacking successfully our vital areas, and returning to its base. . . . The 'Air invasion of the U. S.' and the 'Air defense of the U. S.' are conceptions of those who fail to realize the inherent limitations of aviation and to consider ocean barriers." For the so-called Mitchell plan of unification of the Army & Navy air forces under a separate air department the committee had scant sympathy. Such a plan "would be a serious error, jeopardize the security of the Nation...