Word: failed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...infinitely more harmful than if they were barefaced shameless falsehoods. They are beneath the level and dignity of any high-class journal or publication. Your gullibility in swallowing these accusations, hook, line and sinker, is unthinkable. I cannot understand how any self-respecting reporter, however careless or incompetent, could fail to ascertain the facts before putting such a story in print. It appears that this article must have been inspired from other sources, as it would be difficult to impute to your publication such a total absence of the elementary principles of decency and fair treatment...
...check thus signed over to him last week by German voters. In his "Heads will roll in the sand" declaration he promised that when he came to power his government would "seek to abrogate or revise the Treaty [of Versailles] by diplomatic negotiations. I solemnly assert that if these fail we shall proceed to ignore or circumvent the Treaty, with legal means if possible; failing that with illegal means. The world may call that 'illegal' but I am answerable solely to the German people for my actions...
...amebae-one-celled parasites-in the intestinal canal. The parasites enter the canal through the mouth, in food or drink. Some of them leave in intestinal discharges. In the U. S., with its well-guarded water and sewage systems, the parasites are spread chiefly by infected food handlers who fail to wash their hands thoroughly. As with typhoid bacilli, the parasites may be carried by humans who do not suffer from the disease...
...statement has often been justly made that language courses fail to give a student a sufficiently up-to-date knowledge of a tongue. All such a course does is teach grammar, prescribe a number of books, and include some conversation in the daily lesson. Of course, the grammar taught is standard and the books read are classics. The argument is that if one is to learn a language, he might as well know it in its perfect form. However, this method of teaching deprives the student of much of the color and life of a language. The classical prose...
...view of this, the attitude of the American press fails to achieve the dignity of a crusade against oppression. It is simply in accord with the weak and vacillating policy, following the mob rather than leading it, which characterizes American journalism in times of great crisis. Perhaps the NRA may succeed; perhaps it may fail. Until something definite happens, however, editorial pens will shake warily with every tremor of public opinion, and, like the biblical character, blow neither hot nor cold...