Word: failed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...also learned that the owners of cars who have been tagged two times or more will be brought into court commencing this morning. If this line of action should fail in dealing with the most frequent offenders, more stringent measures will be taken. The drive against out of state cars will be vigorously pursued, and many have already been removed from the streets by the department when discovered parking overnight...
...liquor trade ceases to agitate at the present tempo, observers believe that most of the business will settle into the hands of the more venerable importers who maintained their European connections through the dry years. Exclusive agencies usually call for a specified volume, and if the new firms fail to develop markets, they will lose their contracts. Only three newcomers whom the old importers regard as potential competitors are Tillier-Thompson. the distributing subsidiary of Schenley Distillers and R. C. Williams & Co.. an old grocery firm about to handle liquor for the first time. Some old importers and their...
...century. A peon and his fiancee go to their ranch owner for permission to marry. One of the hacendado's guests rapes the girl. The peon strikes her assaulter, then tries with four friends to retrieve the girl from a tower into which she has been tossed. They fail and scamper away, pursued by a posse which includes the hacendado's daughter, who gets shot dead when the posse catches up with the fugitives. The three fugitives who are captured are disposed of by the "horse torture." Servants bury them alive so that only their heads show above...
...many young men come to Cambridge to fail pitifully in that first testing year that it naturally is the constant effort of men who must guide their educational and recreational life to lay emphasis on the pitfalls ahead. They knowingly counsel that carelessness, procrastination, and lack of strength to organize the week's hours lead only to an early termination of association between the undergraduates and his chosen college...
...missed by anyone in the field of Biology. A certain indifference to the merits of the Botany 1 keeps many away from Botany 2 and higher courses in Botany, but if one has only a passing interest in the subject of Biology as a whole, he cannot fail to like this course...