Word: failed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...named Jack who, when he grows up to be a young man (Robert Young) hopes to be a theatre impresario like his father. Old John Forrester, now a backstage worker in a puppet show, goes to the first night of his son's first play, sees it fail. Later in the evening, disguised in whiskers, he visits young Forrester in his office, encourages him to try again. After the gala premiere of Jack Forrester's second play there arrives the inevitable climax ? a recognition scene between old John Forrester and his wife (Doris Kenyon). They fall into each other...
...Federal Government brought suit to compel the 19 members of the New York Clearing House Association to cover a $6,300,000 deficit in the bank's funds. The Government charged that the Clearing House members had promised Harriman Bank officers that they would not let the bank fail. Last week nine Clearing House members, including Chase National Bank, Corn Exchange Bank and Central Hanover Bank & Trust, agreed to settle the suit out of court, pay $2,835,000 as their share. That will bring payments to Harriman's 11,000 depositors up to 65? on the dollar...
That night Max Planck's scientific peers made him feel that he must make a bold reply to Bernhard Rust. Sad-faced Max Planck did not fail Pure Science. Next day at the Congress of the Kaiser Wilhelm...
...hand are the colleges that complain of their freshmen who seem to know so little about organizing and using their time. On the other hand are the schools that see some of their graduates fail in college for lack of a firm but friendly hand to offer guidance at the psychological moment. The test of fitness for college, say the university authorities, is the ability of the individual to take purposeful advantage to his opportunities. Correct reply the school heads, but follow each boy individually, especially at first, until he becomes oriented; or, in other words, until he knows what...
Harvard's score to date stands 1,083 in favor of the New Deal as a whole, with 639 dissenting. These figures fail to agree with the figures obtained by the CRIMSON in 1932 when the College voted overwhelmingly in favor of Hoover for President. At that time students in the University polled a total of 1211 in favor of Hoover while Roosevelt was a poor second with...