Word: failed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...coin held under the upper lip and a cold key dropped down the back to stop a nosebleed. If those fail, let the blood drip on an ax or knife and bury it in the ground...
...work in the tropics the Surgeon General continued: "They do not look vigorous to me. Take Hawaii particularly, which is a delightful place most of the year to live. The people there are pretty well-to-do, the white people who go out there. And very few of them fail to absent themselves for a few weeks to several months every year. In that way they keep...
...rates confiscatory as well as the new. The financial history of the company, wrote the Chief Justice, "repels the suggestion that during all these years it was suffering from confiscatory rates. . . . Elaborate calculations which are at war with realities are of no avail. . . . Proving too much, they fail of the intended effect." The Court ordered the injunction dissolved, the company to refund to telephone subscribers a total of nearly $20,000,000 approximately the company's entire surplus and more than twice the cash & securities in its treasury at year...
...Pennsylvania regular Republican machine, supposedly demoralized, had functioned amazingly well. In only one case, where a man was deliberately thrown overboard, did the regular Republican Congressional candidates fail to win renomination. In the opinion of the arch-Republican New York Herald Tribune, the G. O. P. organization had worked too well. "What the rank and file of the normally Republican voters want is new blood, new leadership," it complained, "rather than a return to the old policies and old methods...
...hard times in France deepen and are prolonged for another year or two, as there is plenty of unhappy evidence to indicate, then profound political changes can scarcely fail to result. The French people as a whole are psychologically unprepared to endure a long depression without vigorous reactions in one direction or another. . . . Frenchmen are harassed, perplexed and ill at ease and as yet they see no real gleam of light pointing a way out of the depression. They are divided amongst themselves but that division is too even to indicate an easy solution. . . . Even so the French system...