Word: failed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Formal debating often involves the stiff presentation of set speeches that fail to establish a clash of issues. Technicalities of definition are pushed for all they are worth, and no rational basis for an understanding is reached. The decision is awarded on the basis of effective presentation, and the scramble for the decision results in the establishment of intrinsic rights and intrinsic wrongs on a question that is necessarily relative. Informal debating and parliamentary discussion in House debating clubs; with no decision at stake, lay the foundation for argument that seeks not merely to win but to establish truth...
...long reign of power has made Tammany careless, and Mayor LaGuardia's investigations are gradually developing a complete picture of its makeup and methods. The people of New York may tolerate graft and financial corruption as unavoidable evils, but, cynical as they may be, they cannot fail to be moved profoundly by maudlin sadism...
...anyone acting in his interest, directly or indirectly to attempt by interference, influence, restraint, favor, coercion, or lockout, or by any other means, to impair the rights of employees guaranteed under section four (collective bargaining) or to refuse to recognize and deal with representatives of his employees, or to fail to exert every reasonable effort to make and maintain agreements with such representatives concerning wages, hours and other conditions of employment...
...life of one of the lesser known Harvard Presidents will be drudgery and a boring tale, may this review by a caveat. Here is an interesting story of an unusual life, and a tale of educational changes and problems which, in a time like the present, should not fail to interest anyone in a university community...
Minor Prophet? Dickens' England was a country in which the Industrial Revolution was just getting under way. not without slime and soot. No observer of the contemporary scene could fail to notice the more noisome puddles, and Dickens soon made a name for himself as a crusader against social ills. To his critics' assertion that his indignation proceeded from no plan, that he had no social program, his defenders reply that his attacks did much of the spadework that made programs possible. In many a passage in his novels he pictured the desperate plight of the metropolitan poor...