Word: failed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...take place about ten or twelve times a year, have been open to all members of that group. Recently it has become increasingly common for but a small number to attend the meetings. As a consequence, a majority is seldom present, while those men who are at the gathering fail to compose a representative body of the faculty. President Conant's suggestion, therefore, is in line with an attempt to take some action to do away with this difficulty. Whether this suggestion is accepted or not, it is understood that steps of some sort will be taken to have...
...Harvard band should conform, still the performances of last week and the week before have only clinched the impression that an evolution is in order. Regardless of musical excellence, gold braid and epaulets with really snappy formations create an atmosphere that the sailor cap, sweater, and black tie somehow fail to achieve...
Perhaps the currents are too strong for men to swim, but they fail to have that effect on women. Within the past three weeks, three young San Francisco girls have negotiated the distance between Alcatraz Island and the mainland...
Breather. By the end of last week there was evidence that the AAA's quick action had somewhat pacified John Farmer and George Peek had a breather. Holiday members in 14 states stalled, failed to vote for the strike. Northeastern Colorado and Western Nebraska farmers went further, resolved at their meetings "to follow the leadership of President Roosevelt." Tempered editorials appeared, like that of the Cedar Rapids Gazette, which concluded: "The Government's proposition is part cash and part gamble; Reno's proposition is all gamble." Even such a hot-head as grizzled old Governor William Henry...
Araki barked: ''Should Japan fail to carry out our armament replenishment program and the second naval supplementary plan, the red figures in our budget will become black, it is true, but the prospect of establishing a Far Eastern peace on an enduring basis [i. e. under Japanese dominance] will be lost and the people of Asia will become permanent servants of the white races...